wordsmith
noun
word·smith
ˈwərd-ˌsmith 
: a person who works with words
especially
: a skillful writer
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Instead, Bates became a wordsmith, taking jobs as a legal secretary and court transcriptionist before opening a business service of her own.
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
Out that saw the wordsmith add insult to injury in his attack of Drake.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 June 2024
The line’s wit, combined with Lamar’s punchy, triumphant delivery, quickly went viral on social media, and became a flash point in the entire feud: Lamar had successfully used his skills as a musician and a wordsmith to persuade people that Drake was a genuinely bad person.
—TIME, 7 May 2024
She’s also long been a wordsmith, as a onetime Oscar columnist for New York magazine, a former editor for The New York Times Magazine and the author of two how-to-make-it-in-Hollywood tomes.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
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Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 25 June 2024
Out that saw the wordsmith add insult to injury in his attack of Drake.
—Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 20 June 2024
The line’s wit, combined with Lamar’s punchy, triumphant delivery, quickly went viral on social media, and became a flash point in the entire feud: Lamar had successfully used his skills as a musician and a wordsmith to persuade people that Drake was a genuinely bad person.
—TIME, 7 May 2024
She’s also long been a wordsmith, as a onetime Oscar columnist for New York magazine, a former editor for The New York Times Magazine and the author of two how-to-make-it-in-Hollywood tomes.
—Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Feb. 2024
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“Wordsmith.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wordsmith. Accessed 15 Jul. 2024.
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