editorialist

noun

ed·​i·​to·​ri·​al·​ist ˌe-də-ˈtȯr-ē-ə-list How to pronounce editorialist (audio)
: a writer of editorials

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No doubt Long and her fellow editorialists might respond that owing to the desperate poverty that was the norm in China not terribly long ago, the Chinese tend to save the fruits of their exports. John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 Bryan had briefly been a congressman from Nebraska but was far better known as a newspaper editorialist and a spell-binding speaker who addressed numerous crowds from makeshift stages on railroad cars. Ron Elving, NPR, 1 Feb. 2025 For the Post’s editorial board to disdain substantial Chinese production for the rest of the world is for those same editorialists to disdain the division of labor that is at the root of all productive advance. John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2025 Everywhere, Ryback says, the cartoonists and editorialists delighted in Hitler’s discomfiture. Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Mar. 2024 Appelbaum, the New York Times editorialist, describes a classroom experiment in which a professor gives half his students $10 and the other half nothing. Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 25 Oct. 2022 Any nuance in Birx's statement was lost by the time criticisms reached the partisan editorialists at Fox News and the Wall Street Journal. John Timmer, Ars Technica, 27 Mar. 2020 Ross Douthat, a conservative editorialist at the New York Times (paywall) explained the debate as a fight between old and new views of Christianity’s role in the culture. Ephrat Livni, Quartz, 17 June 2019 Almost every week, editorialists at high-profile joints electrocute Twitter with a new your-liberal-views-are-vulgar sally. Virginia Heffernan, WIRED, 12 Mar. 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1841, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of editorialist was in 1841

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“Editorialist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/editorialist. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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