editor

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Recent Examples of editor Thanks in part to editor Laurence Briaud, that easy and immersive structure aptly suggests that everything Garance experiences while her alcoholism advances happens during a single unit of time. Tomris Laffly, Variety, 17 May 2026 Ryan Gaydos is a senior editor for Fox News Digital. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 17 May 2026 Amina Kilpatrick Amina Kilpatrick is a weekend platforms editor for NBC News. Kayla Hayempour, NBC news, 17 May 2026 Steven Spielberg introduced Howard to Jurassic Park screenwriter David Koepp, who was working on the script for The Paper with brother Stephen Koepp, a Time magazine editor. Ryan Gajewski, HollywoodReporter, 10 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for editor
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Noun
  • While China and the US are commonly cast as rivals on equal footing, Beijing remains fundamentally outmatched by Washington’s financial power, a leading Financial Times columnist argued.
    Tasneem Nashrulla, semafor.com, 19 May 2026
  • Allison Schrager is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering economics.
    Allison Schrager, Twin Cities, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • The late New Yorker writer Donald Barthleme, an absurdist, is often cited as an example.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • And yet every day writers call me from conference rooms at their day jobs, or cramped kitchens with their children, or cars sitting in their driveways—sometimes the only place quiet enough to think.
    David O’Neill, New Yorker, 20 May 2026
Noun
  • The travelers are the famous novelist Thomas Mann (Hanns Zischler) and his daughter Erika (Hüller), who is serving on this trip as her father’s assistant, driver, editor, and barber.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 15 May 2026
  • The screenplay is co-written by Annila and Rachelle Atalla, a Scottish-Egyptian novelist and screenwriter.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • The minister added that police had recently stopped an attack against a staffer of another presidential candidate, Paloma Valencia, in the same city.
    CBS News, CBS News, 16 May 2026
  • The new map, crafted by a staffer in DeSantis’ office, cuts Democratic seats in Florida by half and favors the GOP to win 24 out of Florida’s 28 seats.
    Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 15 May 2026
Noun
  • Video shows a woman walking down the street when a man suddenly attacked her from behind and stabbed her with a pen.
    Steven Yablonski, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • Prime lips for a perfectly smooth, even application using the 3-in-1 Lip Scrub pen, which gently scrubs away dead skin with super-fine sugar granules and keeps lips hydrated with nourishing shea butter and algae.
    ABC News, ABC News, 19 May 2026
Noun
  • Saunders’ analysis of his quartet of authors and their stories also puts me in mind of an observation by the late playwright Tom Stoppard.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • The authors do not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and have disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their academic appointment.
    Eric Welch, The Conversation, 19 May 2026

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“Editor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/editor. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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