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as in writer
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as in director
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Recent Examples of auteur
Part of the reason for this was to attract marquee auteur talent back to the Burbank, CA studio in the wake of Christopher Nolan departure to Universal.
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
That goes double for my thoughts on Tyler Perry, the prolific African-American auteur who ended his TV partnership with Oprah to co-create the BET+ video streaming service.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
He’s become a true auteur, and like many great auteurs, the Greek director has taken his new caché to explore brand new mediums, via an emerging side-passion in still photography.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
Over his now decade-and-a-half-long career, fans of the alt-pop auteur—real name Mike Hadreas—have only seen his work grow in scale and power, evolving from twinkling piano bedroom ballads to ambitious blasts of sonic splendor that careen through the gray areas between genre.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 27 Mar. 2025
That goes double for my thoughts on Tyler Perry, the prolific African-American auteur who ended his TV partnership with Oprah to co-create the BET+ video streaming service.
—PCMAG, 25 Mar. 2025
He’s become a true auteur, and like many great auteurs, the Greek director has taken his new caché to explore brand new mediums, via an emerging side-passion in still photography.
—Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 31 Mar. 2025
Over his now decade-and-a-half-long career, fans of the alt-pop auteur—real name Mike Hadreas—have only seen his work grow in scale and power, evolving from twinkling piano bedroom ballads to ambitious blasts of sonic splendor that careen through the gray areas between genre.
—Liam Hess, Vogue, 31 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for auteur
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Jackson Thompson is a sports writer for Fox News Digital.—
Jackson Thompson,
FOXNews.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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Jen McCaffrey is a staff writer for The Athletic covering the Boston Red Sox.—
Jen McCaffrey,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Who is directing Toy Story 5? Stanton, a longtime Pixar director known for classics like Finding Nemo and A Bug’s Life, will direct Toy Story 5.—
Maddie Garfinkle,
People.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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In the first 24 hours of the Eaton fire, Pasadena’s communications director helped activate four different kinds of alerts to keep its residents apprised of evacuation orders, while also hopping on several news programs and doing interviews to share updates in real time.—
Grace Toohey,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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Palmer’s look was curated by stylist Molly Dickson, who’s also worked with Sydney Sweeney and Sadie Sink, among others.—
Julia Teti,
Footwear News,
9 Apr. 2025
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Effie Trinket becomes District 12’s stylist after her sister, Proserpina (who’s part of the district’s prep team as a part of a school project), calls her in to help when their original stylist fails to show up.—
Ashley Wolfgang,
Vulture,
8 Apr. 2025
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After two days of sightseeing in Ulaanbaatar, wordsmiths head to Kharkhorin, the town that was the Mongol Empire’s capital in the 13th century, where the retreat truly begins.—
Ginanne Brownell,
New York Times,
13 Feb. 2025
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There, Brewer helped to launch the careers of Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and wordsmith Shel Silverstein.—
Audrey Gibbs,
The Tennessean,
14 Mar. 2024
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In the fall of 2020, Kanye West, music impresario, fashion designer, flame thrower and Kim Kardashian’s ex-husband, founded a private school.—
Stacy Perman,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2025
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The Manner’s Sloane Bar set the stage for Marc Jacobs’ post-show extravaganza, with a fashionable melange of models fresh from the runway at the New York Public Library, drag queens, nightlife impresarios, and friends of the brands enjoying one of the bar’s specialty martinis in the moody space.—
Sam Falb,
Vogue,
4 Feb. 2025
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Clearly, by now — that is, 1835 — science had done enough to prove itself in the eyes of the litterateurs.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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Reflecting this, in 1726’s Gulliver’s Travels, the Irish litterateur Jonathan Swift satirized early scientists as buffoons.—
Thomas Moynihan,
Big Think,
7 Mar. 2025
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No matter how daffy some of it is, the production has the important factor of clarity; a quality that the great stage director Peter Hall used to say is a vital component of any revival of a classic.—
Baz Bamigboye,
Deadline,
4 Apr. 2025
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That would be lyricist Fred Ebb, playwright Terrence McNally and original star Chita Rivera, key figures behind the 1993 Broadway musical, alongside composer John Kander and stage director Harold Prince.—
David Rooney,
The Hollywood Reporter,
3 Sep. 2019
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Such an approach would involve considerable challenges since producers of Taiwanese items sold in the U.S. such as phones and electronics are mainly assembled in China.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
19 Apr. 2025
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America was not keeping pace with the rest of the world’s production by the 1950s, and was forced to become an importer from producers like Bolivia and Zambia.—
Ariel Cohen,
Forbes.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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“Auteur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/auteur. Accessed 23 Apr. 2025.
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