as in critic
a person who makes or expresses a judgment on the quality of offerings in some field of endeavor many reviewers were unhappy with the movie's cryptic ending

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Recent Examples of reviewer Ezvalo Set of 2 Rechargeable Under-Cabinet LED Lights Installation takes all of 60 seconds, reviewers said, and requires no tools or damage to walls or cabinetry. Miles Walls, Better Homes & Gardens, 8 Sep. 2025 Sandlin said the approval process involved back-and-forth dialogue with the reviewers, and that his engineers made changes to their plans based on feedback. Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 Sep. 2025 Kayla Blanton is a freelance lifestyle writer, editor, and reviewer of seven years and a proud cat mom to three very spoiled rescues. Kayla Blanton, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025 Such is the demand, a league of horn-reviewers has spawned online. Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 6 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for reviewer
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critic
Noun
  • Seattle did very little to silence those critics in Week 1.
    Michael-Shawn Dugar, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2025
  • Before presenting Video of the Year at the 2018 awards, Madonna paid tribute to Aretha Franklin, in a moment critics called totally tone deaf.
    Kate Hogan, PEOPLE, 7 Sep. 2025

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“Reviewer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/reviewer. Accessed 12 Sep. 2025.

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