essayist
Example Sentences
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“Sure you’re romantic about American history,” wrote DeVoto, a historian and essayist.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
Critics, including a guest essayist for the New York Times, have called his Oval Office remodel a "Gilded Rococo Nightmare".
From BBC • Oct. 15, 2025
The author is a writing professor for Antioch University and a published essayist who lives in Los Angeles County.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 26, 2025
It’s as if everyone’s a budding essayist on psychology, which makes a situation that trades on recklessness and delusion harder to swallow.
From Los Angeles Times • May 2, 2025
But Wilfrid Sheed, an American novelist and essayist, penned a comment just before the match ended that many would later regard as prescient.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.