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• plural of author.
• present tense form of author (3rd person singular).

authors

American  

[aw-therz] / ˈɔ θərz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

1. a card game for two or more persons that is played with a 52-card pack, the object being to take the largest number of tricks consisting of four cards of the same denomination.

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Etymology

Origin of authors

1865–70, plural of author

Example Sentences

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The study’s authors effectively found that necessity is the mother of invention.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

Ms. Ando, one of more than 30 artists and city officials whom the authors spoke to, decided on steel girders nearly three stories tall that had fallen from the top of Tower Two.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

The second paper by the same authors, "Some very hard ground to heave': DNA identification of Harry Peglar, Captain of the Foretop, HMS Terror," appears in Polar Record.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 10, 2026

The rusted, twisted metal became a means, the authors write, for “communities far from New York to establish a physical bond through these remnants of destruction.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 10, 2026

Instead the landscape is an arena for the interaction of natural and social forces, a kind of display, and one that like all displays is not fully under the control of its authors.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann