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American

[aw-therz] / ˈɔ θərz /

noun

(used with a singular verb)

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.

Etymology

Origin of authors

1865–70, plural of author

Example Sentences

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Luke Goebel is a guest on the panel “It Goes All the Way to the Top: Crime Organizations, Conspiracies and Secret Societies in Fiction” moderated by Oline Cogdill and featuring fellow authors Ace Atkins, S.A.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Brown has also joined forces with publishers Pan Macmillan to start publishing books by black authors.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

“AI-driven displacement could impose lasting costs on affected workers, worsening labor market outcomes for several years,” authors Pierfrancesco Mei and Jessica Rindels wrote.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

The study's first authors are Stanford Medicine's Chiraag Kulkarni, MD, an instructor in gastroenterology and hepatology, and assistant clinical research coordinator Touran Fardeen.

From Science Daily • Apr. 3, 2026

Novelist Clive Cussler was one of the most successful of all authors.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler

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