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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who writes editorials.

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  • noun One who write opinion pieces, especially for a newspaper.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a journalist who writes editorials

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Examples

  • How that guy passes himself off as a reporter instead of an editorialist is beyond me.

    Waldo Jaquith - Mitt Romney spent $300 on makeup. 2007

  • David Frum, a former editorialist for the Journal and speechwriter for George W. Bush, has opined on FrumForum that it's time to downgrade the Journal's editorial page, enumerating its instances of false and flip-flop arguments.

    Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012

  • Readers are invited to speculate: what does the editorialist think is less than "ideal" about him?

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Zelaya, shrieks the editorialist, used "machinations" (beware of those, as any kid with a Transformer knows) to attempt to insert a "generalissimo clause" in the Honduran constitution.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • The Globe editorialist slams the boycotters '"one-sided world view," but the editorial takes a pretty one-sided world-view of its own: free expression must be reserved, it seems, for those on the pro-Israel side of things.

    Archive 2009-09-01 2009

  • David Frum, a former editorialist for the Journal and speechwriter for George W. Bush, has opined on FrumForum that it's time to downgrade the Journal's editorial page, enumerating its instances of false and flip-flop arguments.

    Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012

  • "Don't fall for this story of patriotism," said Oscar Giannino , an editorialist and a member of a conservative think tank, in a radio address last week.

    Businessman Urges Countrymen: Buy Italian Deborah Ball 2011

  • I dont need to read any conservative OPINION piece by an editorialist that is one of the screechmonkeys who do your thinking for you.

    Think Progress » Pentagon Shooter Was Right-Wing, Anti-Government Terrorist 2010

  • David Frum, a former editorialist for the Journal and speechwriter for George W. Bush, has opined on FrumForum that it's time to downgrade the Journal's editorial page, enumerating its instances of false and flip-flop arguments.

    Anne Butterfield: The Republican Clown Car Circus Anne Butterfield 2012

  • "Half the country loves Berlusconi and the other half thinks he's a monster," says Pierluigi Battista , an editorialist for Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

    Women Protest Berlusconi Scandal Nathania Zevi 2011

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