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columnist

[kol-uhm-nist, -uh-mist] / ˈkɒl əm nɪst, -ə mɪst /
NOUN
journalist
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At the time of her firing, Attiah was the last remaining Black full-time opinion columnist at the Post, a publication that serves one of the nation’s most diverse regions.

From Salon Aug. 25, 2026

Instead of firing Attiah, the newspaper could have conducted an investigation and interview with the columnist to understand her posts and could have asked her to delete the comments, Miller Espinosa said.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 24, 2026

Carroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 82, sued Trump for attacking her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

“The badly written letter of Andrés López Beltrán doesn’t transmit indignation,” wrote Denise Dresser, a columnist and frequentSheinbaum administration critic.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

To resist propaganda, the columnist continued, people need to apply “a healthy skepticism” to what they read and hear.

From "Spooked!" by Gail Jarrow

Fill out the MarketWatch Retirement Questionnaire and one of our columnists might answer your question.

From MarketWatch Aug. 21, 2026

Many journalists were especially outraged because of the extreme dangers faced by Mexican reporters, editors, columnists and photographers.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

Sound advice for a struggling new parent: Slate’s advice columnists have heard it all over the years, so our parenting advice column has been bringing back some classics from the archives.

From Slate Aug. 4, 2026

Navigating a temporary injury made our Retirement Rookies columnists realize that the quality of their “go-slow” years will depend on alternative transportation—from autonomous taxis to the bus to a walk around town.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 10, 2026

Even so, the social columnists still did not write about his wife’s dresses when he and she attended the opera, the way they described the nightly couture of mesdames Palmer, Pullman, and Armour.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson




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