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reader

[ree-der] / ˈri dər /


NOUN
one who makes a profession of reading aloud
Synonyms
NOUN
anyone admitted to a library
Synonyms




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Those stocks appear to be burning a hole in your pocket, but it’s not always wise to scratch itchy feet, as this Moneyist reader discovered.

From MarketWatch Aug. 11, 2026

In only a few years, the surveillance start-up Flock has installed more than 100,000 license plate reader cameras across the United States.

From Barron's Aug. 9, 2026

With digital cameras offering an element of surprise when you plug in the memory card reader to your computer at home, digital cameras capture a moment in time.

From BBC Aug. 8, 2026

“Hold my wine cooler!” joked Gen X reader Adam Sah in response to WSJ’s recent article, “Bars Are Giving Up on Young People and Catering to Gen X Instead.”

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 5, 2026

Much too, you will think, reader, to engender jealousy: if a woman, in my position, could presume to be jealous of a woman in Miss Ingram’s.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

You might drop this paper with an “ick” if you knew how many readers proved my point by shrieking “denier” at me.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 11, 2026

Devour some books … and pizza: Pizza Hut’s Book It! program, which rewarded children for reading with personal pan pizzas, is part of the lore of countless childhood readers turned adults.

From Slate Aug. 10, 2026

Some readers — and couples — would be grateful to retire on half that amount.

From MarketWatch Aug. 10, 2026

Ms. Sampson, a professor emerita of poetry at the University of Roehampton, expertly immerses readers in the cultural and intellectual world that produced one of the greatest practitioners of 19th-century literature.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

The historian has to mediate between the past and the present, finding a language which will convey to present readers the beliefs and convictions of people who thought quite differently.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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