as in author
a person who creates a written work
a writer who is still trying to get published
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Recent Examples of writer
There is surely some retroactive continuity here, the writer going back in time to spin an origin story about the idea that would become the center of her spiritual writing.
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Meghan O’Gieblyn,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
What Chris and the writers have always done well is find a way to zig or zag in a way that feels organic.
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Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
30 June 2026
The Original Daughter The Wedding People Gabrielle Bellot is a staff writer for Literary Hub.
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Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
Why Shop With Us Alison Syrett Cleary is a fashion and travel editor and writer with over a decade of experience, covering everything from personal style to shopping recommendations to emerging trends.
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Alison Syrett Cleary,
InStyle,
30 June 2026
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Meghan O’Gieblyn,
Harpers Magazine,
30 June 2026
What Chris and the writers have always done well is find a way to zig or zag in a way that feels organic.
—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
30 June 2026
The Original Daughter The Wedding People Gabrielle Bellot is a staff writer for Literary Hub.
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Gabrielle Bellot,
Literary Hub,
30 June 2026
Why Shop With Us Alison Syrett Cleary is a fashion and travel editor and writer with over a decade of experience, covering everything from personal style to shopping recommendations to emerging trends.
—
Alison Syrett Cleary,
InStyle,
30 June 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writer
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How does an accomplished author find himself at the helm of a multibillion-dollar casino enterprise?
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The author emphasizes identifying leaders who act like owners, not just employees, by having substantial personal capital invested in the company.
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The Denver horror novelist was diagnosed with breast cancer last year and endured a lumpectomy, four rounds of chemotherapy and a double mastectomy.
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The 2025 Laureate in Literature, the Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai, made no mention of humanity’s future.
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According to biographer Robert Jobson, a suspicious Prince William was anxious that Meghan would wear his mother’s jewels during the wedding.
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In addition to Burns at Columbia, Rand and her group were instrumental in helping hone Greenspan's capitalist, free-market economic philosophy, according to Martin, Greenspan's biographer.
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Because the alcohol drives the storytellers toward vernacular expression, these pieces can seem more alive and authentic, more relatable, than big-budget, big-screen productions.
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Mallaby, a longtime financial journalist, is a nimble storyteller, and his portrait of one of the single-minded personalities plunging the world into an uncertain future is also an engaging drama of discovery.
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Gardone Riviera itself is worth a wander, with the eccentric Vittoriale degli Italiani, the former estate of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, a short walk from the hotel.
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On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.
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“Writer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writer. Accessed 2 Jul. 2026.
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