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columnist

[kol-uhm-nist, -uh-mist] / ˈkɒl əm nɪst, -ə mɪst /
NOUN
journalist
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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

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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