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a person who writes a newspaper or magazine column
The columnist is known to take provocative positions that often shape the opinions of her readers. a gossip columnist
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Recent Examples of columnists
Beat writer Jaylon Thompson joins columnists Sam McDowell and Vahe Gregorian in the discussion.
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Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
The Free Press also has columnists who write for most of our sections.
—Detroit Free Press, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Our opinion contributors and columnists discuss everything that Hoosiers are talking about right now with a more nuanced and personable voice.
—Kurtcia Collazo, IndyStar, 23 Sep. 2025
Many of the Post’s opinion columnists have departed as a result of Bezos’s moves.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 15 Sep. 2025
Our Until Saturday newsletter is a banger all throughout the season, and our columnists are Heisman short-listers with the pen.
—Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2025
Two of the state’s biggest columnists jumped into the fray.
—Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 16 Aug. 2025
Boy Scouts marched, as did fraternities, high-school classes, postmen, and newspaper columnists.
—Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2025
Reporters avoid giving their opinion, unlike us columnists.
—Krista Kafer, Denver Post, 7 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for columnists
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A number of Gilmore Girls producers and writers also attended the ceremony.—
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Every article is based on rigorous reporting by our team of expert writers and editors with extensive knowledge of personal finance.—
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The organization also consults school district websites and letters sent to school districts and corresponds with librarians, authors and teachers.—
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The actress revealed that the school’s syllabus includes several non-fiction books, ranging from politics in Russia to those penned by early English authors.—
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The eight-part narrative podcast by reporters Keith Sharon and Kirsten Fiscus will focus on the Skull murder case.—
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In August, the OpenAI CEO told reporters the AI market was in a bubble.—
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The journalists' arrests happened not long after police issued the dispersal order.—
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In practice, Musk bowed to authoritarian governments or banned critical journalists when their reporting annoyed him.—
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“Columnists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columnists. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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