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reader

[ree-der] / ˈri dər /


NOUN
one who makes a profession of reading aloud
Synonyms
NOUN
anyone admitted to a library
Synonyms




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This audacious mystery makes an ideal premise for a novel, where Schoenbrun can toy with reader expectations without the added task of ensuring that the final image reflects their objective.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

One MarketWatch reader planning an affordable Europe getaway wonders whether social-media recommendations are worth following.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 29, 2026

"I've always been a fantasy reader and it's just escapism really," she says.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

The book has over a hundred narrators, relying on the reader to sift and construct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026

And that’s pretty much how I imagined it; what I never imagined is that the future reader might look back on any of this, or on my own peculiar experience, and say, “How quaint.”

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis

Have any of your readers dealt with a parent in early dementia or Alzheimer’s who fixates on an old slight and reignites the conflict like it happened yesterday?

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026

That was enough to beat the collective efforts of the BBC readers, who managed four correct results, with two exact scores, for a tally of 100 points.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

What a great waste of time, I hear readers mutter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2026

Schoenbrun confidently guides readers down winding, interconnected roads, bouncing between online cults and peculiar digital ephemera to weave a gripping search for truth in a time when the internet has made everything fiction.

From Salon ● Oct. 29, 2026

Even the earliest readers of Origin were aware of the book’s far-reaching implications.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee


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