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wrights

  • plural
    of wright.
    wright
    noun
    a worker, especially a constructive worker (used chiefly in combination).

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Play wrights Sanctuary directed Dr Larry Myers of St John s University goes directly to breaking news troubespots nd engages in dramatic arts jihads!

From New York Times Dec. 29, 2017

It remains to be seen whether the costly craft launched by Russel Crowe and his ark wrights will sink or swim.

From Time Mar. 27, 2014

The new humor, which draws its tone from play wrights such as Albee and Pinter, is cruel, taut-nerved, and speaks the lingo of the obscene and the absurd, not funny-ha-ha but funny-peculiar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Other English play wrights may update Shaw; Berkoff wants to be an East End blend of Sam Shepard and Jean Genet.

From Time Magazine Archive

We may begin by and by with wrights, but I cannot but think that a handy laborer might be taught to work at them.

From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart