columnist
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Carroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 82, sued Trump for attacking her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Mr. Heitman, a columnist for the Baton Rouge Advocate, is the editor of Phi Kappa Phi’s Forum magazine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 16, 2026
Or as Huffington Post columnist Kayla Chadwick writes: “I don’t know how to explain to you that you should care about other people.”
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 13, 2026
Washington Post columnist Marc Thiessen reminisced about working two jobs, living with roommates and eating ramen after college.
From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2026
In her heart, she was his silent ally, a fifth columnist, in Bull’s inveterate assaults on the trellised escutcheons of the Old South that Lillian shoved in front of him.
From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy
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Sound advice for a struggling new parent: Slate’s advice columnists have heard it all over the years, so our parenting advice column has been bringing back some classics from the archives.
From Slate ● Aug. 4, 2026
He also said that people who read financial columnists or listen to financial podcasts “don’t make good clients.”
From MarketWatch ● May 27, 2026
Times columnists Gustavo Arellano, Mark Z. Barabak and Anita Chabria absorbed the rhetorical blows, followed the heated back-and-forths and took in each and every one of the candidates’ myriad policy prescriptions.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2026
For the first time, newspaper columnists are pondering a hypothetical scenario in which he might withdraw from the election.
From Barron's ● Apr. 24, 2026
Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour.
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
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