columnist
noun
col·um·nist
ˈkä-ləm-nist 
-lə-mist,
also ˈkäl-yəm-nist,
-yə-mist
: one who writes a newspaper or magazine column
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The festival also falls during the seventh anniversary of the assassination of Washington Post columnist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi, which a US intelligence report says happened at the behest of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
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Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network's senior national college football columnist.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, a Chicago institution, wrote that the Padres didn’t deserve to win, because San Diego fans were a white wine-drinking and sushi-eating bunch.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
He has been named one of the top three columnists in the country twice in the past three years by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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Liam Reilly, CNN Money, 2 Oct. 2025
Blake Toppmeyer is the USA TODAY Network's senior national college football columnist.
—Blake Toppmeyer, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2025
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Mike Royko, a Chicago institution, wrote that the Padres didn’t deserve to win, because San Diego fans were a white wine-drinking and sushi-eating bunch.
—Barry M. Bloom, Sportico.com, 1 Oct. 2025
He has been named one of the top three columnists in the country twice in the past three years by the Associated Press Sports Editors.
—Mark Lazerus, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
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“Columnist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/columnist. Accessed 9 Oct. 2025.
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columnist
noun
col·um·nist
ˈkäl-əm-(n)əst
: a person who writes a newspaper or magazine column
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