coauthor
noun
co·au·thor
(ˌ)kō-ˈȯ-thər 
variants
or
plural coauthors or co-authors
: one who collaborates with another person in authoring a literary or dramatic work, a document, a legislative bill, etc.
coauthors of many books and plays
the coauthors of new legislation
coauthor
transitive verb
or
coauthored or co-authored; coauthoring or co-authoring
… he coauthored legislation … requiring the publication on the Internet of the cost of all federal contracts, grants, and congressional "earmarks,"…
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Michael Tomasky
Michael Tomasky
a co-authored book
coauthorship
noun
or
… accepting coauthorship on studies to which they did not significantly contribute.
—Mary Murray
Mary Murray
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In the third, coauthors Dan Janssen and Winnie Hallwachs spent more than 40 years collecting caterpillars in the forest and rearing them with the express purpose of seeing which parasitoid wasps tore their way out.
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Elizabeth Anne Brown,
Scientific American,
1 July 2026
The research also advances our understanding of how dinosaurs moved around the southern continents, according to study coauthor Samantha Beeston, a palaeontology doctoral student at University College London.
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Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
Núñez was coauthor of a study published in 2023 in the journal Buildings that examined a type of concrete building higher than 20 stories and built to minimum Venezuelan code requirements.
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Mery Mogollón,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Staci Hill is the cofounder Gooseberry Bridge Farm and coauthor of the The Preserver's Garden.
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Abby Monteil,
The Spruce,
12 June 2026
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Elizabeth Anne Brown,
Scientific American,
1 July 2026
The research also advances our understanding of how dinosaurs moved around the southern continents, according to study coauthor Samantha Beeston, a palaeontology doctoral student at University College London.
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Jack Guy,
CNN Money,
30 June 2026
Núñez was coauthor of a study published in 2023 in the journal Buildings that examined a type of concrete building higher than 20 stories and built to minimum Venezuelan code requirements.
—
Mery Mogollón,
Los Angeles Times,
27 June 2026
Staci Hill is the cofounder Gooseberry Bridge Farm and coauthor of the The Preserver's Garden.
—
Abby Monteil,
The Spruce,
12 June 2026
See All Example Sentences for coauthor
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“Coauthor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/coauthor. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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