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
But Fleming leaps past other wry wordsmiths with his constant, unrelenting effort to wring every last drop of laughter out of every single premise.
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John Roy,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 2026
An outstanding producer and a clever wordsmith.
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Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2026
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
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.
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Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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John Roy,
Vulture,
19 Feb. 2026
An outstanding producer and a clever wordsmith.
—
Victoria Uwumarogie,
Essence,
27 Jan. 2026
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.
—
Literary Hub,
17 Dec. 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
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There’s a lot of hard work that goes into being a shopping writer, but there’s a lot of play, too.
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Times staff writer Sonja Sharp contributed to this report.
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Its successor script, Linea B, was also a mystery until it was deciphered in 1952 by an amateur linguist and cryptographer Michael Ventris with the help of classicist John Chadwick, both building on patterns in the script first identified by classicist Alice Kober.
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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.
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“Wordsmith.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wordsmith. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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