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author

[aw-ther] / ˈɔ θər /


VERB
to write computer programs
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She is the author of the new IPS report, “America’s 20 Largest Low-Wage Employers and the Affordability Crisis.”

From MarketWatch • Apr. 6, 2026

Guest: Colleen Dulle, Vatican correspondent for America Media, co-host of “Inside the Vatican” podcast, and author of “Struck Down, Not Destroyed.”

From Slate • Apr. 6, 2026

“People underestimate how improbable the improbable is,” says Christian Busch, a University of Southern California business-school professor and the author of “The Serendipity Mindset.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 4, 2026

Now in a three-part series about the Home Office, the Newscast podcast can reveal the identity of its author.

From BBC • Apr. 4, 2026

In 1704 Jonathan Swift, later the author of Gulliver’s Travels, published a little satire entitled The Battle of the Books.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton