columnist

noun

Definition of columnistnext
as in writer
a person who writes a newspaper or magazine column The columnist is known to take provocative positions that often shape the opinions of her readers. a gossip columnist

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Recent Examples of columnist Whether faith can be justified on any terms but its own is an epistemological question beyond this columnist’s understanding. — Louisa Thomas, New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2026 The group of Star columnists and reporters who regularly cover the Chiefs — Sam McDowell, Vahe Gregorian, Pete Sweeney, Pete Grathoff and me — weighed in on the bye-week awards and unanimously slotted Walker at the top of both ballots. — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 8 Oct. 2026 Multiple New York Times opinion columnists have argued that straight men aren’t reading for lack of relatable protagonists. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 8 Oct. 2026 This week, a columnist for The New York Times’ The Athletic called for the Indiana Fever to part ways with Sophie Cunningham. — Bobby Burack Outkick, FOXNews.com, 8 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for columnist
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  1. writer
  2. reporter
  3. author
  4. journalist
  5. novelist
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  • Information for this article was contributed by staff writers of The Associated Press and Constant Méheut of The New York Times.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
  • One of Bilton and Weiss’s signature new on-air hires is the conservative writer Ross Douthat, formerly an opinion columnist for the Times.
    — Vinson Cunningham, New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2026
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  • The row reached the competition jury’s press conference the day after the opening ceremony, where a reporter raised the question of historical fact and creative freedom.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • One of my favorite quotes about Kansas City barbecue comes from a news reporter in Milwaukee.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
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  • This realization has helped lead to the creation of a bench with life-size statues of 19th century author Robert Louis Stevenson, his wife Fanny Stevenson and their Irish setter cocker spaniel ChuChu.
    — Graham Womack, Sacbee.com, 18 Oct. 2026
  • The author argued that the unrest reflected deeper failures by France’s political establishment.
    — Sophia Compton, FOXNews.com, 18 Oct. 2026
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  • Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The local journalists who cover the Bend community every day were not immune from the grief and sadness after today’s deadly shooting of children at an elementary school.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of journalist
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  • He was dressed like a director, in blacks and blues—jeans, baseball cap, puffer coat, Hokas—but spoke and moved at the unhurried pace of a novelist, his original vocation.
    — E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The competition was judged by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, novelist Neal Stephenson, Google‘s Mira Lane, Salesforce executive John Zissimos and ‘Star Trek’ steward Rod Roddenberry.
    — Corbin Bolies, Variety, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of novelist

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“Columnist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/columnist. Accessed 19 Oct. 2026.

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