How to Use commentariat in a Sentence
commentariat
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There is more talk among the commentariat that the Supreme Court should have term limits.
— Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020 -
The Twitter commentariat spent the better part of the evening going in.
— Lindsey Weber, Vanities, 5 Apr. 2017 -
As for the drubbing Hardwick’s claim took from the commentariat, here’s a sampler.
— Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 9 June 2017 -
But amid his 35 to 40 percent core support, some are peeling off, both in Congress and in the pro-Trump commentariat.
— Charles Krauthammer, National Review, 27 July 2017 -
The news that the Consumer Price Index rose 4.2 percent in the twelve months ending in April has shocked the financial commentariat.
— Alexander William Salter, National Review, 14 May 2021 -
There was a time, maybe ten or 15 years ago, when such a gigantic sum of money would have induced a swell of Schadenfreude in the commentariat.
— Vulture, 7 Feb. 2022 -
Will Biden, the Democrats and the commentariat really allow this to happen?
— Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 July 2024 -
And most among the commentariat aren’t either, save those who are legal experts.
— Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023 -
But amid his 35 percent to 40 percent core support, some are peeling off, both in Congress and in the pro-Trump commentariat.
— Alaska Dispatch News, 29 July 2017 -
And every time a new poll shows evangelical support for Trump at a steady high, the commentariat wrings its hands.
— Sarah Jones, The New Republic, 7 June 2018 -
Will this new version frame the Muses as the social-media commentariat?
— Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022 -
Trump supporters swooned about the majesty of American justice, and the commentariat seethed.
— Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024 -
But the Asian commentariat is wrong on the one metric that really matters to the region: economics.
— Vasuki Shastry, Fortune, 21 Apr. 2022 -
The bank’s collapse has inspired a predictable round of hand-wringing in the financial commentariat.
— Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023 -
But managers, and those who study them, have always been political players and part of the commentariat.
— Gianpiero Petriglieri, Quartz at Work, 20 Nov. 2020 -
To much of India’s commentariat, Mr Goswami’s case represented not a test of freedom so much as a test of power.
— The Economist, 28 Nov. 2020 -
But—at least for the Washington commentariat—what was more notable was that America’s fingerprints were nowhere near the deal.
— Blaise Malley, The New Republic, 5 Oct. 2023 -
Alleged tensions between the couple and the new Prince and Princess of Wales have spilled into the coverage of the Queen’s death, prompting familiar side-taking among the commentariat.
— Holly Thomas, CNN, 13 Sep. 2022 -
And who in the anti-Trump commentariat or in Congress who would support a Section 4 action but not impeachment?
— Brian Kalt, Daily Intelligencer, 14 Oct. 2017 -
What explains the right-wing commentariat’s special attraction to the substances?
— Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2019 -
Judgment by the royal commentariat was swift and largely damning.
— Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020 -
Meanwhile, opposition to the use of force in Congress, at the White House, in the Pentagon, and among the foreign policy commentariat was overwhelming.
— Steven A. Cook, Foreign Affairs, 13 Oct. 2020 -
The rally earned comparisons to Nuremberg, though mainly because of the commentariat’s poor grasp of history.
— Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 5 Aug. 2019 -
And yet, among the commentariat, there was a narrative building that Gauff wasn’t winning consistently enough.
— Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024 -
Drivers, pedestrians and cyclists all earned equal scorn among the OregonLive commentariat.
— OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017 -
The liberal legal commentariat should stand back and let the master operate.
— Noah Feldman, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021 -
Suddenly, Congress and much of the conservative commentariat rose up in protest.
— Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018 -
By midnight, Israel’s boisterous commentariat was buzzing with all the possible coalitions that could emerge in coming weeks.
— BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019 -
The commentariat are the superfans of the Tournament of Books, who attempt to read all of the competitors before the tournament’s start, who are passionate about books and reading, and who aren’t shy about expressing an opinion.
— John Warner, chicagotribune.com, 7 Mar. 2018 -
The political commentariat has unleashed a torrent of words since the 2016 election analyzing what befell the Democrats.
— George Melloan, WSJ, 6 Sep. 2017
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