commentariat
noun
com·men·tar·i·at
ˌkä-mən-ˈter-ē-at 
-ē-ˌat
: a group of powerful and influential commentators : punditocracy
Examples of commentariat in a Sentence
Recent Examples on the Web
Trump supporters swooned about the majesty of American justice, and the commentariat seethed.
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Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
And yet, among the commentariat, there was a narrative building that Gauff wasn’t winning consistently enough.
—Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
Considering the level of persecution being faced by the party – its top leadership was thrown in jail or forced to defect after the May 9 riots – this development left most of the commentariat stunned.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2024
These were some of the online commentariat’s initial reactions to the U.S. Labor Department’s announcement on Friday that employers created three hundred and fifty-three thousand jobs in January, far more than Wall Street was expecting.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
The release of the RTX 4070 Super should help bring the enthusiast commentariat version of reality and the Steam Hardware Survey's version of reality into closer sync with one another.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
In a chapter from Alan Sepinwall’s upcoming oral history of the show (excerpted in Vanity Fair) the cast, crew, production, and Television Without Pity commentariat all discuss the reasons Mischa Barton was essentially fired from The O.C. — and why, in hindsight, those reasons sucked.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2023
While there are legitimate questions being asked of AI right now, there also is predictably little analysis from the mainstream tech commentariat on how this ever-burgeoning technology benefits the disability community.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
But—at least for the Washington commentariat—what was more notable was that America’s fingerprints were nowhere near the deal.
—Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
And yet, among the commentariat, there was a narrative building that Gauff wasn’t winning consistently enough.
—Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
Considering the level of persecution being faced by the party – its top leadership was thrown in jail or forced to defect after the May 9 riots – this development left most of the commentariat stunned.
—Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 9 Feb. 2024
These were some of the online commentariat’s initial reactions to the U.S. Labor Department’s announcement on Friday that employers created three hundred and fifty-three thousand jobs in January, far more than Wall Street was expecting.
—John Cassidy, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2024
The release of the RTX 4070 Super should help bring the enthusiast commentariat version of reality and the Steam Hardware Survey's version of reality into closer sync with one another.
—Andrew Cunningham, Ars Technica, 16 Jan. 2024
In a chapter from Alan Sepinwall’s upcoming oral history of the show (excerpted in Vanity Fair) the cast, crew, production, and Television Without Pity commentariat all discuss the reasons Mischa Barton was essentially fired from The O.C. — and why, in hindsight, those reasons sucked.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2023
While there are legitimate questions being asked of AI right now, there also is predictably little analysis from the mainstream tech commentariat on how this ever-burgeoning technology benefits the disability community.
—Steven Aquino, Forbes, 13 Nov. 2023
But—at least for the Washington commentariat—what was more notable was that America’s fingerprints were nowhere near the deal.
—Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023
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Word History
Etymology
commentator + -ariat (in proletariat)
First Known Use
1993, in the meaning defined above
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“Commentariat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commentariat. Accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
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