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[kuhn-trib-yuh-ter] / kənˈtrɪb jə tər /
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subscriber
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During her time at CNN, she served as a contributor to the CBS newsmagazine “60 Minutes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026

One possible contributor involves mitochondria, the tiny structures inside cells that convert nutrients into usable energy.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

A major contributor to that dictionary was Edgeworth’s nephew Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, the economist who lives on in the Edgeworth box taught to economics students today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

With more than 10,000 published pieces, mostly into Spanish, Portuguese and English, OKA is, Zimmerman says, the single largest contributor of translated articles to the collaborative online encyclopedia.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

A contributor to Dunlap's American Daily Advertiser who went by the initials “A. B.” could be seen poking around rainwater barrels in his neighborhood.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

It’s perhaps unsurprising that Micron and Nvidia are expected to be major earnings contributors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 18, 2026

The discovery suggests that scientists have been overlooking important contributors to bacterial blotch.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

In particular Mr. de Moura, who was focused on improving Lean’s core capabilities, spent long hours each day correcting Mathlib entries made by other contributors, who seemed to him demanding and disrespectful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Smoke from forest fires, crop burning and cooking are significant contributors to Africa's air pollution while Saharan dust travels as far as Europe.

From Barron's ● Sep. 30, 2026

Topic-then-comment and given-then-new orderings are major contributors to coherence, the feeling that one sentence flows into the next rather than jerking the reader around.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker


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