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critic

[krit-ik] / ˈkrɪt ɪk /




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Over there, film critic Pauline Kael; and there, poet and sitcom star Suzanne Somers; and look, there’s bar-band singer Hugh Cregg, who’ll eventually use the stage name Huey Lewis.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

He also worked for Marjorie Taylor Greene, a former Republican congresswoman who fell out with Trump and became a fierce critic before resigning from office.

From BBC Aug. 29, 2026

If you relish reading a critic pan a bad movie, then you’ll love Laura Miller’s scathing review of The Whisper Man, a ridiculous new thriller starring Robert De Niro and Michael Keaton.

From Slate Aug. 28, 2026

There was enough of a resurgence in the 1970s to merit a new term, the “directorial mode,” coined by critic A.D.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 25, 2026

One critic praised “Miss Anderson’s power to move her listeners as can no other singer of her generation.”

From "The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights" by Russell Freedman

And yet the headlines allow critics to claim they are not just ramshackle and amateurish but can point to what looks like a pattern of activity, consciously pursued, to breach the law.

From BBC Sep. 5, 2026

Every time critics throw her a curveball, she smacks it to the opposite field and gets on base, ready to grind her way to a win.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 4, 2026

But she publicly enjoyed a healthy dating life with a number of rich and famous bachelors, giving critics more ammunition to use against her.

From BBC Sep. 3, 2026

The triumphal arch would block or disrupt the sightline of other monuments, critics have said.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 3, 2026

He had been one of her most outspoken critics during her stay in Rome.

From "Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen" by Susan Blackaby




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