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a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor
many reviewers were unhappy with the movie's cryptic ending
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The orchestration layer must detect failure patterns and adapt—whether by retrying, skipping optional steps or escalating the task to a human reviewer.
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Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Again, our reviewers could quibble with that ranking, as no Samsung sets appear in our best TVs list.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Ezvalo Set of 2 Rechargeable Under-Cabinet LED Lights Installation takes all of 60 seconds, reviewers said, and requires no tools or damage to walls or cabinetry.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
Sandlin said the approval process involved back-and-forth dialogue with the reviewers, and that his engineers made changes to their plans based on feedback.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
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Gopikrishnan Anilkumar, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2025
Again, our reviewers could quibble with that ranking, as no Samsung sets appear in our best TVs list.
—Rob Pegoraro, PC Magazine, 9 Sep. 2025
Ezvalo Set of 2 Rechargeable Under-Cabinet LED Lights Installation takes all of 60 seconds, reviewers said, and requires no tools or damage to walls or cabinetry.
—Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025
Sandlin said the approval process involved back-and-forth dialogue with the reviewers, and that his engineers made changes to their plans based on feedback.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for reviewer
critic
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An anime about a teenager avenging the deaths of his family at the hands of hordes of carnivorous demons wouldn’t usually be the sort of film which would be met with unanimous praise from critics.—
Caroline Reid,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The Republican and Democratic heads of a US congressional committee for strategic competition with China in July stressed their strong support for AUKUS, amid the review of the deal by Elbridge Colby, a top Pentagon policy official and public critic of the pact.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
14 Sep. 2025
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“Reviewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reviewer. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.
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