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
Every auto loan list is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of auto financing products.
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Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
On top of being co-writers and directors, Alex signs the score and Diego the editing.
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Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Eythana Miller is a writer from Montana who has lived in California since 2018.
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Eythana Miller,
The Dial,
23 June 2026
Avon Dorsey is a contributing writer for Vogue, with a sharp focus on fashion, lifestyle, events, and culture.
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Avon Dorsey,
Vogue,
23 June 2026
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Jasmin Suknanan,
CNBC,
23 June 2026
On top of being co-writers and directors, Alex signs the score and Diego the editing.
—
Rafa Sales Ross,
Variety,
23 June 2026
Eythana Miller is a writer from Montana who has lived in California since 2018.
—
Eythana Miller,
The Dial,
23 June 2026
Avon Dorsey is a contributing writer for Vogue, with a sharp focus on fashion, lifestyle, events, and culture.
—
Avon Dorsey,
Vogue,
23 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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Spencer went on to marry Raine, Countess of Dartmouth — her mother was the romantic fiction novelist Barbara Cartland, who showered Diana’s world with pulp romance.
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James Lasdun’s new book, The Family Man, reckons with the Alex Murdaugh murder case, which the poet, novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer covered for The New Yorker.
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Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275.
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Beatty’s biographer, Peter Biskind, also famously estimated that the number of women Beatty had slept with could be as high as 12,275.
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Far from lumps of rock, the trojans, along with DJ and Dinkinesh (which is the Ethiopian name for the Lucy fossil), are windows into the past, and the storytellers of the Earth's most ancient history.
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Sun Yi is an award-winning personal brand strategist, storyteller, TEDx speaker, podcaster, and founder of Night Owls and Night Owl Nation.
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The feature by Calvo and Ambrossi, who are known popularly as Los Javis, explores LGBT heritage and pays tribute to murdered Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca through the interconnected stories of three men in the three different eras of 1932, 1937 and 2017.
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The effect was probably not present in the English of Chaucer, nor standard in the later speech of Shakespeare, on the basis of the words that these poets think are rhymes.
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“Writer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writer. Accessed 26 Jun. 2026.
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