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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /
NOUN
composer of written work
Synonyms
STRONGEST
biographer columnist composer creator journalist poet producer reporter writer
STRONG
essayist ghost ghostwriter originator playwright scribbler scribe wordsmith
WEAK
ink slinger prose writer scripter word slinger work-for-hire
VERB
to write computer programs
Synonyms
STRONGEST
code program write

Example Sentences

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This is what author David Sax has termed “the revenge of the analog.”

From Slate • Apr. 4, 2026

Now in a three-part series about the Home Office, the Newscast podcast can reveal the identity of its author.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

“There’s way more than 3 individuals whose work was detected as mixed/AI in WSJ,” lead author Jenna Russell, a doctoral student in computer science, told me in an email.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

Peng is the senior author of the study, published in Immunity on March 27.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

In 1944, Rudensky was released on parole and had a successful career as an author and a businessman.

From "Killers of the Flower Moon" by David Grann

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.