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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


VERB
to write computer programs
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The science fiction trilogy 3 Body Problem is based on Chinese author Liu Cixin's Remembrance of Earth's Past.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Dame Jilly, who was an English author and journalist, died unexpectedly last October, aged 88, after suffering injuries from a fall at home.

From BBC • May 25, 2026

"Right away, I knew it was something really special," says Voight, curator emerita of invertebrates at the Field Museum in Chicago and the lead author of the study describing the new species.

From Science Daily • May 25, 2026

Steve Dudley, an American author who knows Cepeda, said the candidate views his father’s use of armed struggle combined with politics as a grim necessity in a country where violence long shaped political life.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 25, 2026

The anonymous author of 1604 had been quite right to insist that the theory of perspective would provide the key to interpreting the image of the moon.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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