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Recent Examples of columnist from the Web
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Dana Milbank is a columnist for the Washington Post.
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Frazier Moore is a national television columnist for The Associated Press.
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Joan Dittmann is a freelance columnist for the Post-Tribune.
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Joseph Goodman is a columnist for Alabama Media Group.
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Several of Mr. Breslin’s family members, former colleagues and friends said the photo opportunity, near the Daily News building, would have been something the cantankerous columnist and advocate of ordinary New Yorkers would have skewered.
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Patti Ahern is a freelance columnist and can be emailed at PattiRMA@aol.com.
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Last week, the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) — part of the Seattle Partners (SP) effort with Hudson Pacific Properties — rolled president and CEO Dan Beckerman into town for interviews with select reporters and columnists, myself included.
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No, Clyde Roach was not a columnist, or affiliated with the media company except as a paperboy as a child.
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First Known Use of columnist
1917
COLUMNIST Defined for English Language Learners
columnist
playDefinition of columnist for English Language Learners
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: a person who writes a newspaper or magazine column
COLUMNIST Defined for Kids
columnist
playDefinition of columnist for Students
: a writer of a column in a newspaper or magazine
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