Definitions

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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Lead author Dr. Barbara Cardoso, from Monash University's Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food and the Victorian Heart Institute, said the results add to growing evidence linking highly processed foods to poorer brain health.

From Science Daily • Jun. 9, 2026

“Pretend You’re Dead” came off one extended jaunt in 2019, when the author spent five months in the country researching its trans history.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

Few shows are quite as ripely pubescent as this adaptation of the very popular “Every Summer After,” the debut of author Carley Fortune and the opening salvo in her “Barry’s Bay” series of romance novels.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Matt Schulz, chief consumer-finance analyst at LendingTree and author of “Ask Questions, Save Money, Make More: How to Take Control of Your Financial Life,” recently went through this process with his son, too.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 9, 2026

In installments, its author, Harriet Beecher Stowe, poured forth the tragic tale of the life of Uncle Tom, a fictional, enslaved Black man.

From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock

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