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as in writers
a person who creates a written work
a brilliant novel by a first-time author
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as in creators
a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor
the author of modern genetics
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as in writes
to compose and set down on paper the words of
authored a new biography of Thomas Jefferson
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Recent Examples of authors
Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
As this heatwave persisted, the authors tracked the health of 52,356 wild and restored Acropora coral colonies across the 350-mile length of Florida's coral reef.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
But the diver’s eye view was even more dramatic, said one of the surveyor divers and co-authors, Richard Karp, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences with NOAA’s coral program.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
The study’s authors hope other researchers can now apply the methods described in their study on other dinosaur mummies.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
There are new authors getting new agents and new book deals all the time, and there are editors finding great success in their roles.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
As fires intensify amid climate change, the paper authors say, these sensory skills could mean the difference between survival and death.
—Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Beyond their vast digital footprint, the brothers are also both authors and entrepreneurs.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
—Robert Maloy, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2025
Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
The study authors looked at 13 samples and found no traces of typhus, but their work does not discredit the findings of the 2006 study, the researchers noted.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2025
As this heatwave persisted, the authors tracked the health of 52,356 wild and restored Acropora coral colonies across the 350-mile length of Florida's coral reef.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 24 Oct. 2025
But the diver’s eye view was even more dramatic, said one of the surveyor divers and co-authors, Richard Karp, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Miami’s Cooperative Institute of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences with NOAA’s coral program.
—Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
The study’s authors hope other researchers can now apply the methods described in their study on other dinosaur mummies.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 23 Oct. 2025
There are new authors getting new agents and new book deals all the time, and there are editors finding great success in their roles.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
As fires intensify amid climate change, the paper authors say, these sensory skills could mean the difference between survival and death.
—Clarissa Brincat, Scientific American, 22 Oct. 2025
Beyond their vast digital footprint, the brothers are also both authors and entrepreneurs.
—Preston Fore, Fortune, 18 Oct. 2025
The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
—Robert Maloy, The Conversation, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
While not all of the slowdown in box production can be attributable to falling demand for goods, the slump is present in other areas of the freight economy, said Adam Josephson, a longtime paper and packaging sell-side analyst who now authors an economics newsletter.
—Alicia Wallace, CNN Money, 30 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for authors
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That also applies to a steady supply of writers who imagine the place to be haunted.—
Chris Kenning,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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Nobody protected writers like this guy.—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Abundantia stressed the philosophy of Abundantia aiOn would be ‘Human First, AI Empowered’, with an aim to explore how artificial intelligence can empower creators and act as a creative accelerator.—
Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
27 Oct. 2025
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These creators — many of whom sell their own workbooks and classes on how to game the KDP system — take public domain classic literature and use AI to add summaries and discussion questions before relisting them on the site with a new cover.—
CT Jones,
Rolling Stone,
27 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The long jam in ‘Fruit Bat’ came out of an idea from our drummer, who writes a lot of the music.—
Brett Milano,
Boston Herald,
26 Oct. 2025
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John Ruskin, the greatest of architectural critics, observed that a nation writes its history in many books, but that the book of its buildings is the most enduring.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
25 Oct. 2025
Noun
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During the formative phase of the infant American republic, when its survival was still problematic, iconic founders performed a valuable function as reliable sources of unquestioned wisdom, a veritable gallery of Delphic oracles available on demand.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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Facebook offered some $114 billion for the photo-sharing app, divided between its two co-founders, Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, as well as investors and less than a dozen employees.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
28 Oct. 2025
Verb
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The series kicks off when Dale Washberg (Tim Blake Nelson), a member of a powerful Oklahoma family, pens a suicide note, hides it inside a book on his shelves, and then shoots himself in the head.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
22 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The new season, which marks the first under iHeartMedia and Will Ferrell's Big Money Players Network, will go beyond the original premise of interviewing famous fathers.—
Mekishana Pierre,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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What YouTube and these social platforms have done is allow people to create entire media groups speaking to very particular communities—to South Asian women or, say, gay fathers over forty.—
David Wingrave,
Harpers Magazine,
24 Oct. 2025
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“Authors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/authors. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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