noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a CD burner/writer (= a piece of equipment for putting music, information etc on CDs )
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By 2002, CD burners were standard hardware for home computers.
a comedy writer
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He is best known as a comedy writer for radio and television.
a cookery writer (= someone who writes books or articles about cooking )
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He's a cookery writer for a newspaper.
a crime writer (= someone who writes stories about crimes, especially murder )
a struggling artist/writer/business
a travel writer
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an award-winning travel writer
comic writer/actress/performer etc (= someone who writes or performs things that make you laugh )
contemporary artists/writers
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Paintings by contemporary artists covered the walls.
freelance journalist/writer/photographer etc
ghost writer
work/writer/man etc of genius
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Wynford was an architect of genius.
writer's block
writer's cramp
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
good
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There have been plenty of good writers who were also Christians.
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Dunne is such a good writer that he can make almost anything interesting.
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Some of our best writers are on the staff of the magazine, and one of them is Associate Editor Anne Boston.
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Robert Reich and James Fallows are two of the best writers who worry over the new class division in the country.
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A wry and entertaining tale, typical of this good writer .
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Plus you can bump into some of the nation's best writers in the refrigerated section of Wild Oats.
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Or could it simply be that many of our best satirical writers were themselves college lecturers?
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We make good music, we have good writers .
great
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We were talking about great writers .
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However, Freud was a great writer and a compelling personality.
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That did not make him a great writer , nor did that fact prevent his holding an important literary post.
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Reich is a big thinker and a great writer .
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But a great writer just the same.
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He was then buried amongst many other great writers of the past in Westminster Abbey.
late
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Certainly later writers warn against mistaking unusual sense phenomena for genuine spiritual enlightenment.
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This view was then copied by later writers .
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No later writer could afford to ignore so well-placed a source.
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It would be incongruous to see her as an influence on later writers who may never have heard of her.
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Only very late writers tell us anything about his other astronomical views.
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No such distinction was known in the middle ages and it is essentially the creation of later administrators and writers .
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These twelve variables have subsequently been reduced to four main headings by later writers .
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Early on he makes a general point, one taken up by later writers , that there is a relativity about identity.
other
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He believes that a writer will often find himself through exposure to some other writer.
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He felt no competitiveness with other writers and was encouraging to people younger than himself.
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This theoretical division into two cultures is graphically illustrated by Nizan in his practical criticism of other writers .
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We might even discover that he uses a lower number of abstract nouns than other writers of his time.
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A possible scenario for self-publishers is this: You have been meeting with other writers for some time.
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But Kemp has no space for theory, nor inclination to show Wells in his time, one among other writers .
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This point has been emphasised by other writers .
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But if he was scrupulously careful about his own expenditure, he was generous to other poets and writers .
senior
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Kohler remains a senior writer with the company.
young
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This is, indeed, a valuable example of a young writer thinking on paper.
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He always had the time. Young writers sought him out.
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In this capacity, his wisdom and tolerance gave much encouragement to young writers .
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The character of the young black writer appears only sporadically.
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There are lots of new, younger writers , who know how to please the playgoer.
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Designed like a board game, your choices move a young writer through his career.
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Elean:You are also involved in the training of young writers , why do you do this?
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Dream Lab allows young writers to work with professional playwrights.
■ NOUN
fiction
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It is doubtful whether fiction writers are public benefactors, or their publishers philanthropists.
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We received the term courtesy of William Gibson, a science fiction writer .
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But, as we can now see, it was like being a science fiction writer really.
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How many up-and-coming fiction writers are former aerospace engineers?
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Unbelievable, but true. 25 year old, Charles Cockell is no science fiction writer .
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No psychiatry nonsense, no mumbo jumbo about theories and the other paraphernalia of the fiction writer .
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That was the dream of solar sailing, so beloved of both scientists and science fiction writers .
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The earliest appearance in print seems to be in a 1950 story by the science fiction writer Eric Frank Russell.
■ VERB
become
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So I began consciously journeying towards becoming a writer .
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Arax became a writer and journalist.
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He became a writer after he failed as an entrepreneur, and kept being tempted back into speculative schemes.
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I wanted to become a writer , a singer, and an actress, and fall in love and marry.
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Soon after her marriage Charlotte Despard became a writer of popular novels.
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In retrospect, I find it natural that Fanshawe should have become a writer .
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Her Kensington home became a meeting-place for writers and artists, particularly those associated with the Yellow Book.
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A.. The longer I do it the more my own personality becomes evident to the writers .
write
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Everything that one writes should impart the writer .
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Whether they are primarily travellers who write or writers who travel does not matter.
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Branwell wanted to be a writer , so he wrote to writers; but not many of them wrote back.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a failed actor/writer etc
artist/writer etc in residence
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A trained psychiatric nurse, he is the current artist in residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital.
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Well, towards the end of 1990 I was appointed artist in residence at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.
budding artist/actor/writer etc
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Perhaps she is a budding artist, a future novelist.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a writer of romantic novels
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a political writer for the New York Times
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Among his influences, he places Wynton Marsalis and writer Stanley Goode.
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Do you have any books by modern American writers?
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Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.
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I enjoy reading American writers.
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Rush is a poet and writer of fiction.
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When I was young, I wanted to be a famous writer .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Feminist writers have wanted, of course, to indict the various forms of brutality and coercion from which women have suffered.
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However, in interviews last week, several former Forbes writers and editors confirmed the report in Fortune.
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Some writers and journalists ridiculed her appeals, which were often received with hostility by militant students.
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The best writers manage to have sympathy for all their characters; there is always more than one side to represent.
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These, however, are indicated in scores and livrets and noted by contemporary writers on opera performance.