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
Bryan Hood Senior Staff Writer Bryan Hood is a digital staff writer at Robb Report.
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 May 2025
This writer was one of the jurors who selected the nominees.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
Follow the writer of this newsletter on social media @jimreineking.
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Scott drove the Vogue writer around Seattle in her minivan and talked about avoiding the limelight.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 May 2025
This writer was one of the jurors who selected the nominees.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 23 May 2025
Follow the writer of this newsletter on social media @jimreineking.
—Jim Reineking, USA Today, 13 May 2025
Scott drove the Vogue writer around Seattle in her minivan and talked about avoiding the limelight.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for writer
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The Roman author Pliny the Elder praised wines from the northeastern corner of modern-day Italy in 77 A.D., specifically those from the village of Puccino, which many historians consider the ancestral home of Prosecco.—
Emily Price,
Forbes.com,
24 May 2025
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The study’s authors, Jamie Bryan Hall, EPPC’s director of data analysis, and Ryan Anderson, the organization's president, are not health experts, and neither seems to have a record of publishing scientific research through peer review.—
Keren Landman,
The Atlantic,
24 May 2025
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The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Among its most renowned figures were novelists Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster; painters Vanessa Bell, Roger Fry, and Duncan Grant; nonfiction writers and critics Lytton Strachey, Clive Bell, Desmond MacCarthy, and Leonard Woolf; and economist John Maynard Keynes.—
Jenny Noyce,
JSTOR Daily,
14 May 2025
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The Visionary Tribute is designed to recognize boundary-pushing work that will inspire the next generation of storytellers.—
Hilary Lewis,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2025
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The collaboration will also inform the development of new AI tools, ensuring that emerging technologies align with the needs of storytellers.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
20 May 2025
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The foundation also recognized the poet and activist Galal El-Behairy with the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award.—
Carly Tagen-Dye,
People.com,
16 May 2025
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Poe: This one-syllable name, inspired by The Raven poet, could be a match for parents seeking a bookish name or one with a soft-gothic feel.—
Anna Earl,
Parents,
15 May 2025
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“Writer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/writer. Accessed 28 May. 2025.
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