panelist

noun

pan·​el·​ist ˈpa-nᵊl-ist How to pronounce panelist (audio)
: a member of a discussion or advisory panel or of a radio or television panel

Examples of panelist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The panelists kicked things off by skipping down the yellow brick road in costume — with Robin Thicke as Oz, Ken Jeong as The Cowardly Lion, Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg as Glinda the Good Witch, and Rita Ora as Dorothy. Lauren Huff, EW.com, 13 Mar. 2024 At the end of the song, the show’s panelists seemed to dig it. Michael Schneider, Variety, 7 Mar. 2024 The crux of the panel was this: After false-start startups and decades relegated to the ivory tower, these panelists believe quantum computing is ready to step into the limelight. Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 7 Mar. 2024 The show will continue to amaze this season, raising the costume game tremendously, switching up themes and introducing Rita Ora as the new celebrity panelist. Amaris Encinas, USA TODAY, 4 Mar. 2024 When the other panelists turned the conversation to other theological matters, no one had a question for either of them for the remaining 45 minutes. John Blake, CNN, 3 Feb. 2024 Still, Navarro and Griffin are not following each other on Instagram, despite both cohosts following all of their other on-air panelists. Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 1 Mar. 2024 Fahie’s defense attorneys urged the judge to bring the one juror and another panelist who also expressed misgivings back into the courtroom so each of them can be polled again about their original verdicts. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 15 Feb. 2024 Our six panelists, on the other hand, their choices now pruned by the academy’s own predilections, largely staked out common ground in their prognostications of the names to be called when the envelopes are opened on Oscar night. Los Angeles Times, 12 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1948, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of panelist was in 1948

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“Panelist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/panelist. Accessed 28 Mar. 2024.

Kids Definition

panelist

noun
pan·​el·​ist ˈpan-ᵊl-əst How to pronounce panelist (audio)
: a member of a panel

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