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- verb Present participle of
ghostwrite .
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Examples
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The beauty of ghostwriting is the ability to give clients a voice.
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Even in this age of transparency, ghostwriting is an accepted convention.
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The point in ghostwriting, the point in which it works, is when you capture the voice of your subject so completely that you are inside their head, you think the way they think, you can write the way they would write if they could write that way.
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We know that Maliki’s predecessor Ayad Allawi accepted more than a little ghostwriting from the Bush campaign when his turn came to address Congress.
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This fact is a scandal in itself, but the idea of ghostwriting articles has been well documented earlier.
Lennard Davis: Ghostwritten Medical Articles Cast Doubt on Reliability of Drugs 2009
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That said, I'm not sure if I fancy the idea of ghostwriting a blog, but I'm asking.
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Baucus and Charles Grassley accused Glaxo of covering up scientific studies that found problems with Avandia and of including the drug in a "ghostwriting" program.
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Globe reports that Partners HealthCare is finally banning many of those practices, including the "ghostwriting" that I detailed in my article.
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That does not dispose of the issue, however, because in the committee's view "ghostwriting" is itself a "form of misconduct" that fails "to comply with established practices" and deceives readers into thinking that an author has independent authority for his assertions, when in reality the only authority he has is his own.
NYT > Opinion 2009
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The FDA said the new guidelines, posted online Monday, are designed to discourage "ghostwriting" of medical reviews and recommended that companies disclose financial relationships with article authors, the wire service said.
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