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essayist

[es-ey-ist] / ˈɛs eɪ ɪst /




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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