columnist
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Jack Morgan’s reputation for stolid rectitude was permanently undermined — “Until last Tuesday,” wrote a New York Times columnist, “Mr. Morgan was a legend.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026
Born on 26 August 1964, Caruana Galizia had worked as a columnist for several Maltese media outlets, including The Sunday Times of Malta and The Malta Independent.
From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026
Former WSJ tech columnist Walter S. Mossberg wrote at the time that Chrome would likely “make using the web faster, easier and less frustrating.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
As Toronto Star columnist Liz Renzetti put it recently, “We are wolves in beavers’ clothing.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026
When a female chess columnist asked him for an interview after lunch, he agreed; she shrieked joyfully, hugged Bobby, and kissed him on the cheek.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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Fill out the MarketWatch Retirement Questionnaire and one of our columnists might answer your question.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 21, 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
But it’s voters who decide elections, not know-it-all columnists.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 7, 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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