How to Use authorship in a Sentence

authorship

noun
  • His first attempt at authorship failed.
  • The idea of authorship as a means of control is central to both books.
    Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • When that letter turned out to be a forgery, Galileo's authorship was cast in doubt.
    Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2022
  • This is one of a handful of works at the Timken whose authorship remains a puzzle.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse.
    Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 29 May 2020
  • For his part, Jackson does not claim authorship of the poem.
    Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Google not only looks to the content on the page, but to expert authorship and sourcing.
    Allbusiness, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • Keenan says that the show seeks to present the alternative side to the Shakespeare authorship debate, where the facts outweigh the myths.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 Apr. 2023
  • Could De Vere’s authorship, or that of anyone else, have been kept secret both then and through the centuries?
    Michael Dirda, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2023
  • No one else has stepped forward to claim authorship of the decision, and there may be some justice in that.
    John O'Sullivan, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
  • But life abounds with mysteries; very few of them have to do with the true authorship of gruesome murders.
    Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
  • The piece explores questions around ethics and authorship, and its design is A+.
    Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 July 2022
  • In this case, there remains no smoking gun to prove either side of the authorship question.
    Stephen Cox, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • And muddling the manuscript’s authorship further is the fact that the tome may be based off of another text.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Shkreli could not be reached for comment to confirm his authorship of the paper.
    Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The answers to these questions would affect the nature of authorship and copyright.
    Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • Nowadays that would even get you a dual authorship or a first author on a paper.
    Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • By the time Nixon resigned, Thompson’s style, persona, and model of authorship were set.
    Peter Richardson, The New Republic, 28 Jan. 2022
  • There needs to be this sense of authorship and understanding.
    Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • To reclaim authorship, and to keep current, Kruger has remixed several of the most iconic.
    Jonathon Keats, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2021
  • The question of authorship — of how much creative control a director can exercise at the helm of one of these films — has loomed over the MCU for years.
    A.a. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 9 May 2022
  • The experiment has Salle wrestling with the definition of art and the nature of authorship.
    Zachary Small, New York Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Speaking of the future, your own journey led you into the wonderful world of authorship.
    Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 28 Dec. 2022
  • This way of distancing themselves from authorship, in service of the story.
    Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2022
  • In response, Simon released a statement on behalf of WTA questioning the authorship of the email.
    Ej Dickson, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • First authorship is still the one of the most coveted items in academia, and that is unlikely to perish because of a nonhuman first author.
    Almira Osmanovic Thunström, Scientific American, 30 June 2022
  • Even in antiquity, there were some clues that the authorship of the Iliad and the Odyssey might be a complicated affair.
    Adam Kirsch, The New Yorker, 7 June 2021
  • The curriculum was almost exclusively white in terms of imagery, in terms of content, and in terms of authorship.
    Chelsea Sheasley, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Sep. 2022
  • Thus, asking a student to verify the authorship via an in-classroom inquiry is customary and not a big deal.
    Lance Eliot, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2022
  • But in the then-emerging and exploitive Jamaican record business, Marley's authorship of o fewer than six smash hits in Jamaica netted him all of $200.
    Tommy McArdle, Peoplemag, 19 Feb. 2024

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