advice column
noun
US
: an article in a newspaper or magazine that offers advice to people who write to ask for help with a problem
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Dear Life Kit is NPR's advice column, where experts answer tricky questions about relationships, social etiquette, work culture and more.
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Beck Harlan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
Check out Carroll explaining how her Elle advice column was the stuff of lifelong dreams, then enjoy a segment about her childhood fascination with Dear Abby and the like.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
That’s right, the world’s drunkest advice column that also would like to give you a book recommendation.
—Kristen Arnett
july 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Tell me everything Merve Emre on the history of the advice column.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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Beck Harlan, NPR, 30 Aug. 2025
Check out Carroll explaining how her Elle advice column was the stuff of lifelong dreams, then enjoy a segment about her childhood fascination with Dear Abby and the like.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 30 Aug. 2025
That’s right, the world’s drunkest advice column that also would like to give you a book recommendation.
—Kristen Arnett
july 10, Literary Hub, 10 July 2025
Tell me everything Merve Emre on the history of the advice column.
—Benjamin Wallace-Wells, New Yorker, 16 June 2025
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“Advice column.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advice%20column. Accessed 7 Oct. 2025.
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