the writer

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In 1973 Mr. Schaller and the writer Peter Matthiessen hiked to the Crystal Mountain in the Nepalese Himalaya.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 8, 2026

In the New Yorker, the writer Lawrence Weschler rhapsodized about the soft glow in the air here, day and night.

From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2026

But a transformation worthy of one of Dahl’s twisted tales unfolds as the writer perversely makes a bad situation worse.

From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2026

Osman, the writer of the best-selling Thursday Murder Club novels and former host of House of Games and Pointless, was made an OBE for services to literature and broadcasting.

From BBC • May 5, 2026

The reader has to scan the sentence several times to figure out which of two meanings the writer intended, or worse, she may come away with the wrong meaning without realizing it.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker