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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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The book has over a hundred narrators, relying on the reader to sift and construct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

Mr. Miéville peppers his pages with references to real-life people, literature and political history, casually throwing them into the text and expecting the reader to catch up.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

A reader is hard-pressed to resist becoming a poetry stan, so persuasive is Garmus’ Batter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026

That’s because you’ve got debate fever, suffering reader.

From Slate ● Oct. 10, 2026

She recalled each detail that you already know about, reader, but she eventually got to details you do not yet know about, and this is what she said.

From "The Wild Robot Protects" by Peter Brown

“Or if you wanted to escape to Dracula’s castle or some of these other really big genres that you have, readers will be pleasantly surprised at the worlds that we are building.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Send us your favorite way to save or grow your money to [email protected] and we might share it with our readers.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

Understand the world with the help of the Muppets: In 2012, Dahlia Lithwick published a piece of cultural analysis that permanently altered how readers viewed their marriages, their workplaces, and the U.S.

From Slate ● Oct. 16, 2026

After three orderly decades as a journalist and gossip columnist, Jeannette Walls delivered a shock to readers with this account of her chaotic upbringing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

That not only can be confusing to today’s readers but sometimes makes the speaker appear ignorant.

From "In the Shadow of Liberty" by Kenneth C. Davis


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