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Recent Examples of scriptwriter
That means dads and uncles, teachers and political leaders, Hollywood scriptwriters and podcast hosts—all could stand to get in on the game.
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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
As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.
—Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
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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
As in the production chain, giving space to the talent of women and pushing for their inclusion in front of and behind the camera — as scriptwriters, directors, and cinematographers — is a public service duty and a strategic choice.
—Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Oct. 2024
Understand first what Hollywood scriptwriters call the backstory: Intel for decades dominated the global semiconductor industry, designing and manufacturing leading-edge chips.
—Bygeoff Colvin, Fortune, 28 Sep. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for scriptwriter
Noun
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Each year, several largely unacquainted, disparate-minded luminaries from across the film world—directors, screenwriters, actors, and, on occasion, critics—are brought together to manufacture the illusion of consensus.—
Justin Chang,
The New Yorker,
27 Feb. 2025
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House of Talkies is connected to Jain’s The Story Ink, which specializes in book-to-screen adaptations, represents over 500 stories, 200 authors, and 100 screenwriters.—
Naman Ramachandran,
Variety,
27 Feb. 2025
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What about letter writers, who can be all over the place, sometimes in the same sentence?—
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1 Mar. 2025
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In the years leading up to his voice work for the wicked prince hoping to woo Fiona, Everett worked as a writer, playwright and TV presenter.—
Zoey Lyttle,
People.com,
1 Mar. 2025
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In addition to Othello, several other shows were in previews: Purpose, the new play from Appropriate playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Phylicia Rashad, began previews at the Helen Hayes, taking $300,892 for seven performances, filling 94% of seats.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
4 Mar. 2025
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There are references to a 16th-century Venetian playwright, an old American folk song, and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales.—
Simon Vozick-Levinson,
Rolling Stone,
4 Mar. 2025
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White is simply too gifted a dramatist, and too acute an observer of human foibles, for these concerns to feel forced.—
Alison Herman,
Variety,
11 Feb. 2025
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Ackermann, like Ford, is one of fashion’s dramatists, deftly wielding strong shoulders, sinuous draping, and an audacious use of rich color in both his women’s and men’s work, an approach that garnered him the adoration of the likes of Tilda Swinton, Timothée Chalamet—and, clearly, Mr. Ford.—
Mark Holgate,
Vogue,
6 Feb. 2025
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The scenarist of the eternal frontier first had to get there.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
22 June 2023
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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
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Many of the artists work with watercolors, like Proctor, who combines the medium with pen, and some artists create their images digitally.—
Jessie Schiewe,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Feb. 2025
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And some of the doors are made from wood from the cow pens that had been there for 50 years or something.—
Danielle Corona,
Vogue,
25 Feb. 2025
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“Scriptwriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/scriptwriter. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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