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Recent Examples of writer Despite their current confidence in the group, one NFL writer pointed to Dallas' decision to allow Rico Dowdle to walk in free agency as a move that contributes to what could be viewed as a mediocre offseason. Justin Grasso, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 July 2025 Every writer, artist, and editor here feels that way. John Updike, New Yorker, 11 July 2025 Alexandra Koch is a breaking news writer for Fox News Digital. Alexandra Koch, FOXNews.com, 29 June 2025 Instead the line was conceived after the script writers, Al Reinert and Bill Broyles, interviewed Kranz at his home Texas, south of Johnson Space Center. ArsTechnica, 29 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for writer
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Noun
  • Rusty Wright, who is based in Orlando, is an author and lecturer who has spoken on six continents.
    Rusty Wright, The Orlando Sentinel, 11 July 2025
  • The authors hope to continue to investigate how other developmental genes across other sea spider species may have appeared or disappeared throughout their life history, per Earth.com, potentially affecting their abdomens.
    Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 July 2025
Noun
  • In a year dedicated to celebrating her 250th birthday — she was born Dec. 16, 1775 — Austen is acknowledged as one of the greatest novelists in the English language, the author of a half-dozen or so classics, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Emma, Persuasion and Mansfield Park.
    Tom Gliatto, People.com, 19 July 2025
  • More convergences and coincidences: Smith, a novelist to whom success came in his mid-to-late 30s, was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1995.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 16 July 2025
Noun
  • Star Wars books From the days of the High Republic to the Rise of the First Order, storytellers from across the Star Wars galaxy offer behind-the-scenes stories.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 July 2025
  • Hill, the son of Stephen King, is an enthralling storyteller.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 10 July 2025
Noun
  • And the obscure poets and thinkers went flying back into oblivion.
    Peter Wortsman July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • According to Greek and Roman legend, Lyra is a harp, or Lyre, given by the god Apollo to the famous poet and musician Orpheus.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025

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