advice column
noun
US
: an article in a newspaper or magazine that offers advice to people who write to ask for help with a problem
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Your Mileage May Vary is an advice column offering you a new framework for thinking through your ethical dilemmas and philosophical questions.
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 21 Jan. 2025
And yet there is something unique about an outdoors advice column, less in the specifics of individual problems than in the way those problems reveal the contours of bigger, communal ones.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
Similarly, Ali Rosen’s Unlikely Story features Nora, a relationship therapist secretly in love with J, the editor of her anonymous advice column.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Dear Life Kit is NPR's advice column, where experts answer tricky questions about relationships, social etiquette, work culture and more.
—Andee Tagle, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
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Sigal Samuel, Vox, 21 Jan. 2025
And yet there is something unique about an outdoors advice column, less in the specifics of individual problems than in the way those problems reveal the contours of bigger, communal ones.
—Blair Braverman, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
Similarly, Ali Rosen’s Unlikely Story features Nora, a relationship therapist secretly in love with J, the editor of her anonymous advice column.
—Lizz Schumer, People.com, 18 Jan. 2025
Dear Life Kit is NPR's advice column, where experts answer tricky questions about relationships, social etiquette, work culture and more.
—Andee Tagle, NPR, 12 Dec. 2024
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“Advice column.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advice%20column. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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