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[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


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to write computer programs
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Comedian, author and mum-of-two Cariad Lloyd says it is a "rough" position for a child to find themselves in.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026

But, as the author shows, there are surprising nuggets of truth even in such hackneyed ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The study’s lead author even went so far as to say that the existing evidence for intermittent fasting doesn’t justify the hype seen on social media.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

Priscillia Choy Sze Mun, the study's first author and a research assistant in the Cancer and Stem Cell Biology Program at Duke-NUS, described the discovery:

From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2026

He had read a history of the Civil War and the author had written about the men being “cut down by fire.”

From "The River" by Gary Paulsen

Emmanuel Saez, an economist who teaches at University of California, Berkeley, is credited as one of the authors of Proposition 40.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

The study's two co-first authors were Talayah Johnson and Kavya Katugam-Dechene.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

The authors pointed particularly to Brazil's deforestation action plan and increased enforcement in the country's Amazon.

From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026

The companies seeing more significant financial returns, the authors found, are those that have integrated AI most fully up and down the business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

We have grown up to become teachers, psychologists, accountants, news reporters, and published authors.

From "March Forward, Girl" by Melba Pattillo Beals

Egan-Jones said the report was not written by its credit-ratings team, though it didn’t identify who authored it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

During the February meeting, Horvath, who authored the initial motion, said that binding arbitration would promote transparency and push the sides to reach a deal.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

Another bill authored by Bennett was approved last year focusing narrowly on Ventura County.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Lynn questioned who had authored the report, "as us relatives don't trust the hospital and what they say now".

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

"But surely he's not the same Dr. Bright who authored the Treatise on Melancholy!"

From "The Shakespeare Stealer" by Gary L. Blackwood

But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

For example, last May, Anthropic’s biological safety classifier blocked a request for Claude’s assistance in authoring a grant application for scientific funding.

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2026

His career accomplishments include founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture and authoring numerous books, including one on the NMAAHC's creation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The artists credited with creating Franklin and authoring his books did not respond to requests from the BBC for comment.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

To be sure, men and women have long been authoring their own content, beginning with drawings on cave walls up through Gutenberg and the typewriter.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman


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