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Recent Examples of scenarist
The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
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Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
McCarthy merely affects sociological seriousness by collaborating with French screenwriter Thomas Bidegain, the scenarist of Jacques Audiard’s 2009 social-justice movie A Prophet, a precursor to Hollywood’s blame-mass-incarceration trend.
—Armond White, National Review, 28 July 2021
Much of the first hour is devoted to getting-the-band-back-together mechanics, which also lets the scenarists — Mr. Singer, Michael Dougherty, Dan Harris and Simon Kinberg — give the characters some new emotional scars.
—Glenn Kenny, New York Times, 26 May 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for scenarist
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Pamir Güroğlu, chief growth officer & partner at Vitpepper Studios, and Erim Şişman, film director, scriptwriter, and director of AI Studio at Vitpepper, took to the MIP Creative Hub to premiere the trailer to the international market.—
Lily Ford,
HollywoodReporter,
17 Oct. 2025
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Many people with ideas for films or music or stories may never have the resources to create them—the lyricist who wants to put music to words, the scriptwriter who craves to see their lines spoken on a screen.—
Deni Ellis Béchard,
Scientific American,
7 Sep. 2025
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The minds behind Hocus Pocus 3 are brewing up a fresh potion of sisterly magic, screenwriter Jen D'Angelo exclusively tells EW.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
24 Oct. 2025
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This seems like a screenwriter’s fantasy, but Springsteen describes the moment in his book.—
Andy Greene,
Rolling Stone,
24 Oct. 2025
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Famously, the British press conspired to draw the dramatist’s name through the mud, besmirching his literary legacy for generations to follow.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
20 Oct. 2025
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Don’t underestimate what an intrepid dramatist can do with Shakespeare’s inexhaustible masterpiece.—
Christopher Knight,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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Evans was carving out a career as a playwright before the path to screenwriting opened.—
Angelique Jackson,
Variety,
24 Oct. 2025
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Based on an unfinished work by poet and playwright Federico Garcia Lorca, The Black Ball weaves together the lives of three gay men from three distinct historical periods.—
Jennifer Green,
HollywoodReporter,
23 Oct. 2025
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Frankie first became a sports writer in 1991 at the Log Cabin Democrat in Conway and has served in the past as sports editor at the Siloam Springs Herald Leader and the Benton County Daily Record in Bentonville.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
25 Oct. 2025
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Nicole Fallert is a newsletter writer at USA TODAY, sign up for the email here.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
24 Oct. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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The book was first published anonymously, and its authorship is consequently uncertain, though usually attributed to a minor poet and litterateur named Wu Cheng’en.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
3 Mar. 2021
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How did that song challenge your pen compared to the other tracks on Chronosick?—
Carl Lamarre,
Billboard,
28 Oct. 2025
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Sometime between Monday night and Tuesday morning, fencing was cut and pens and nest boxes were destroyed to release the mink, which are raised for their pelts, Fur Commission USA said.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
25 Oct. 2025
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“Scenarist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scenarist. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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