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columnist

[kol-uhm-nist, -uh-mist] / ˈkɒl əm nɪst, -ə mɪst /
NOUN
journalist
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Five years later, New Yorker columnist Kyle Chayka declared “the social-media Web as we knew it . . . appears to be over.”

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

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

“The badly written letter of Andrés López Beltrán doesn’t transmit indignation,” wrote Denise Dresser, a columnist and frequentSheinbaum administration critic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

Mrs. Gurdon is a Free Expression columnist at WSJ Opinion and the author of the forthcoming memoir “Free Range Girl.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

“Red is not one of our great riders, but the only word he knows is yes,” wrote a columnist who didn’t know of Pollard’s blindness.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

MarketWatch columnists Edd and Cynthia Staton write often about living abroad.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

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

Though we’d never been introduced, I knew of him through his newspaper columns, which I read in the Conservative Chronicle, a weekly publication that reprinted the work of right-leaning newspaper columnists.

From The Wall Street Journal May 26, 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

Uniforms, posters warning against fifth columnists, two big air-raid shelters dug into the park lawns, and everywhere, surly officialdom.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan




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