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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


VERB
to write computer programs
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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

It is impossible to imagine what the author would have made of the decades that followed; he belonged, inescapably, to the polite world he had spent his life describing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 3, 2026

"You often have undergraduates that are part of papers - faculty choose undergraduates all the time to work on papers and projects. But for an undergraduate to be the lead author is a huge deal."

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

The author and her mother, Vanne Goodall, in Gombe.

From "My Life with the Chimpanzees" by Jane Goodall