screenwriter

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Recent Examples of screenwriter Aubrey Plaza’s husband, screenwriter and director Jeff Baena, was found dead Friday of suicide at the age of 47. Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 5 Jan. 2025 Jeff Baena, the screenwriter and film director, and husband of actress Aubrey Plaza (The White Lotus), died on January 3. Marc Berman, Forbes, 4 Jan. 2025 Indie screenwriter and director Jeff Baena has died at 47 years old. Kerry Breen, CBS News, 4 Jan. 2025 Jeff Baena, the 47-year-old film director, screenwriter and husband of actress and producer Aubrey Plaza, was found dead at a Los Angeles residence on Friday, the Los Angeles Fire Department confirmed. Chloe Veltman, NPR, 4 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for screenwriter 
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Noun
  • That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.
    Matthew Schnipper, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Karen is a talented scriptwriter who will bring the story to life on screen.
    K.J. Yossman, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024
Noun
  • Movies are the great compensatory art, the creative redemption for people who are novelists, poets, musicians, playwrights, painters, photographers, or even philosophers at heart but not in practice—or those who have artistic souls but no preferred art form at all.
    Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
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    Anne Gelhaus, The Mercury News, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • That this writer had to mention the Vegas odds as a way to balance these teams is so lazy.
    Tim Graham, The Athletic, 13 Jan. 2025
  • Rhea Wessel is an American writer and thought-leadership strategist who helps people grow their business by creating and publishing thought ...
    Rhea Wessel, Forbes, 12 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • As a dramatist, Baker has long excelled at conveying complex emotion with something as simple as a pause, and the silences of Janet Planet are just as powerful on the big screen.
    David Sims, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2024
  • But great dramatists recognize that our lives exist largely in gray zones, and that no ideology can contain our contradictory humanity.
    Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.
    Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 22 June 2023
  • Presumably these dynamics played better in scenarist Sarah Alderson’s original novel (which is set in Lisbon rather than Split).
    Dennis Harvey, Variety, 3 Mar. 2022
Noun
  • Sheltered between the 4-meter high, 2.5-meter wide walls and the 60-meter-deep gorges, people built dugout houses, then later aboveground stone ones, along with stone animal pens and other buildings.
    Ars Technica, Ars Technica, 9 Jan. 2025
  • Vape pen stuffed inside travel-size toothpaste tube - Chicago Midway International Airport Someone should've brushed up on the rules before trying to sneak a vape into the airport in a travel-size toothpaste tube.
    Terry Dickerson, NBC News, 9 Jan. 2025

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