writers

NOUN

person who composes with language

Synonyms

STRONGEST

author biographer columnist correspondent critic dramatist editor essayist journalist novelist poet reporter screenwriter

STRONG

contributor freelancer ghostwriter scribbler scribe stenographer stringer wordsmith

WEAK

newspaper person person of letters scripter

Antonyms

WEAK

reader

Example Sentences

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The French Revolution would later divide these two writers, pushing one to the right and the other to the left.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

Danielle Allen’s excellent book “Radical Duke” builds on these discoveries and makes a further claim: that Paine, and a cohort of other radical writers, wrote at the behest of a singular, powerful aristocratic patron.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

"It's really hard to digest the idea. I certainly don't consider myself in that rarified air of some of the writers, but if you wanna be in that club, I'm there."

From Barron's • Jun. 11, 2026

Dozens of leading female writers are uniting to stage an ambitious theatrical event in a financial office to express their "seismic rage" over the Epstein files and honour his victims.

From BBC • Jun. 10, 2026

“Good writers get close to their characters,” Miss Saunders says.

From "The Skin I'm In" by Sharon G. Flake