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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


VERB
to write computer programs
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Twenty pages into “There’s Only One Sin in Hollywood” by bestselling Pasadena author Rasheed Newson, I had to stop reading.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2026

"You have to view it from the context of what went before, and shirts were fairly plain and simplistic in design," John Blair, author of A Culture of Kits, told BBC World Service's Sporting Witness.

From BBC • Jun. 1, 2026

Mr. Troy is a senior fellow in Zionist thought at the Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem and author of “The Essential Guide to the U.S-Israel Partnership, the 250th Anniversary Edition,” forthcoming in June.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 31, 2026

"This is a new and important therapeutic target for Alzheimer's disease," says senior author Stuart Lipton, the Step Family Foundation Endowed Chair at Scripps Research and a clinical neurologist.

From Science Daily • May 31, 2026

When Time magazine devoted a full page to the charrette process in 1970, the author of the piece barely mentioned Riddick.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson




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