Columnist

Definitions

A regular writer of a column, such as in a magazine or newspaper.

Equivalents

Examples

“a sports columnist”

“a news columnist”

“a sporadic columnist”

“Ann Landers, who sometimes wrote her columns from her bathtub, called herself “the general manager of the world,” which pretty much describes the types of questions an advice columnist might be called upon to answer⟳.”

“As soon as it was suggested that it was considering the Swedish model⟳ – in which men are criminalised for buying sex, but the women working in prostitution are decriminalised – a slew of prominent male columnists started arguing against this infringement on a man's right to purchase⟳ a woman's body.”

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