as in writer
a person who is skilled with words
From a young age he showed talent as a wordsmith, always putting thoughts to paper with eloquence and ease.
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Recent Examples of wordsmith
Rather the answer, according to Obama’s wordsmith, is to take cell phones away from American children who are seeing this carnage on social media and who are rightly horrified.
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Eventually, this wordsmith shows up as well: Eileen Lovberg (Tar‘s Nina Hoss).
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
Gips is one of the many unsung heroes of Hollywood, a wordsmith who encapsulated a film that may not have otherwise attracted the public’s attention.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Eventually, this wordsmith shows up as well: Eileen Lovberg (Tar‘s Nina Hoss).
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2025
Gips is one of the many unsung heroes of Hollywood, a wordsmith who encapsulated a film that may not have otherwise attracted the public’s attention.
—Greg Evans, Deadline, 21 Oct. 2025
King Kyle Lee, a local artist and leader of the Anti Bullying Gang, helped make McKinnon’s hope turn into a reality, bringing a make-shift recording studio to the young wordsmith’s hospital room to lay down vocals for his track.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 2 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for wordsmith
Noun
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Staff writer Sophia Eppley contributed to this report.—
Tia Mitchell,
AJC.com,
17 June 2026
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Many writers have done this before me, but there was an article that struck me where a university fed a machine learning algorithm all their classic pieces of literature, and the AI discovered that there’s only six to seven ways humans tell stories.—
Carita Rizzo,
Deadline,
16 June 2026
Noun
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As a cognitive scientist and linguist, a lot of my research training is about symbols and about the construction of identity in that way.—
Stephanie Shih
June 17,
Los Angeles Times,
17 June 2026
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The field shrank Monday when candidate Lindsey Church, a former Navy linguist who runs a nonprofit serving minority veterans, dropped out of the race and endorsed Macías.—
Jack O'Connor,
Chicago Tribune,
26 May 2026
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“Wordsmith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordsmith. Accessed 22 Jun. 2026.
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