How to Use authorship in a Sentence

authorship

noun
  • His first attempt at authorship failed.
  • With that comes some authorship in where the league goes next.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 18 July 2019
  • What does all that mean for authorship?
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 20 Mar. 2026
  • The idea of authorship as a means of control is central to both books.
    — Stephanie Hayes, The Atlantic, 7 July 2020
  • When that letter turned out to be a forgery, Galileo's authorship was cast in doubt.
    — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Then comes the stroke of authorship as cultural force.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2026
  • Nowadays that would even get you a dual authorship or a first author on a paper.
    — Katie Hafner, Scientific American, 12 Jan. 2023
  • There needs to be this sense of authorship and understanding.
    — Nicole Gull McElroy, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2022
  • On the surface, the issue is authorship.
    — Literary Hub, 26 June 2026
  • So much of your work dispels that idea of authorship and ownership of words and language.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 2 Aug. 2024
  • This is one of a handful of works at the Timken whose authorship remains a puzzle.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 June 2022
  • Google not only looks to the content on the page, but to expert authorship and sourcing.
    — Allbusiness, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2022
  • The ruling came from the court without one justice's authorship.
    — Richard Wolf, USA TODAY, 26 June 2017
  • In this case, there remains no smoking gun to prove either side of the authorship question.
    — Stephen Cox, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Shkreli could not be reached for comment to confirm his authorship of the paper.
    — Adam Feuerstein, STAT, 6 Apr. 2020
  • This exhibition marks the first time the two paintings will be shown since the changes in authorship.
    — Dan Kelly, kansascity.com, 27 June 2017
  • No one else has stepped forward to claim authorship of the decision, and there may be some justice in that.
    — John O'Sullivan, National Review, 29 Aug. 2020
  • But life abounds with mysteries; very few of them have to do with the true authorship of gruesome murders.
    — Benjamin Kunkel, The New Republic, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Family bonds, absence, and trauma loom large as themes in the doc, but so does self-authorship.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 15 Mar. 2026
  • What do copyright and authorship mean in the crowdsourced realm known as the Omegaverse.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 29 May 2020
  • Regardless of its true authorship, the letter has cast a long shadow.
    — Caroline Tien, SELF, 23 Feb. 2026
  • More than just screen time, this fight is about authorship, ownership, and the right to be seen as fully human.
    — Okla Jones, Essence, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Some of those responding to the memo are trying to defend its authorship as an issue of free speech.
    — Susan Wojcicki, Fortune, 9 Aug. 2017
  • The earliest apparent twist in this retelling is one of authorship.
    — Dusty Somers, The Seattle Times, 30 May 2017
  • The story of the poem’s true authorship might make for a good television series or film.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 22 Dec. 2024
  • His point was not anti-technology so much as pro-authorship.
    — Emiliano De Pablos, Variety, 11 Mar. 2026
  • The piece explores questions around ethics and authorship, and its design is A+.
    — Cheri Lucas Rowlands, Longreads, 20 July 2022
  • The answers to these questions would affect the nature of authorship and copyright.
    — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 5 May 2023
  • And muddling the manuscript’s authorship further is the fact that the tome may be based off of another text.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 31 Jan. 2024
  • This is a culmination of a strategy that began with his authorship three years ago.
    — Anthony D'alessandro, Deadline, 22 Jan. 2026

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