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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


VERB
to write computer programs
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"We may be using mental terms to refer to AI, but this may only be because we lack better words," says Ophelia Deroy, philosopher and a senior author of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026

Zahid Hussain, Islamabad-based author and defence analyst, is clear about who is behind the decision.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Mr. Diamond is a senior fellow at the American Institute for Economic Research and author of “Openness to Creative Destruction: Sustaining Innovative Dynamism.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

The Oxford project began in 2022, when lead author Dr. Sebastian Saner, Dr. Oana Bazavan, and their colleagues started developing a way to simulate lattice gauge theories using a hybrid quantum system.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

Along with everything else he accomplished, Bass was a prolific author and the recipient of many scientific awards.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

Both served as senior authors of the study.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"We want to create a comprehensive, transparent, reliable framework that publishers and authors can fall back on," Esme Dennys, the initiative's co-founder, told AFP.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

"More and more, authors are afraid of being suspected of using AI -- self‑published authors even more so."

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

A board member who had worked with Mr. Altman told the authors: “He’s unconstrained by truth.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

The authors of the study found that many of these offenders weren’t even particularly biased toward their victims, but were following the lead of a more biased peer.

From "The 57 Bus" by Dashka Slater

In the United States, writers group the Authors Guild has introduced a "human authored" certification mark.

From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2026

For Blow, creating his own engine in this language meant he could build something "tuned and authored very specifically" to what he wanted to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

Egan-Jones said the report was not written by its credit-ratings team, though it didn’t identify who authored it.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The addictive nature of autoplay and other features is “harmful, full stop, and that they’re not appropriate for the developing brain,” said Lowenthal, who authored the bill.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

My eventual folly, played out in a bar in East New York, was that I came to know the list intimately as my own, as if I alone had authored it.

From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee

But he left an indelible mark on the environment, authoring legislation offering incentives to recycle, limiting advertisers’ inflated claims about products’ environmental benefits and combating water and air pollution.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026

His career accomplishments include founding the National Museum of African American History and Culture and authoring numerous books, including one on the NMAAHC's creation.

From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026

The artists credited with creating Franklin and authoring his books did not respond to requests from the BBC for comment.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

In that case, Roberts, joined by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, surprised many by authoring a 5-4 decision that required Alabama to draw a second majority-minority congressional district.

From Salon ● Oct. 15, 2025

To be sure, men and women have long been authoring their own content, beginning with drawings on cave walls up through Gutenberg and the typewriter.

From "The World Is Flat" by Thomas L. Friedman




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