agony aunt
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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One TikTok user, who goes by the name Ngo Keĩta, plays the role of a popular agony aunt, posting clips in Wolof, the language spoken most widely in Senegal.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 19, 2024
Legend has it, she had an arranged marriage gone wrong, a frozen man to deal with and ended up as an agony aunt.
From BBC • Jan. 25, 2024
Doyle Kennedy said she loved the way “Maria approaches everything — being an agony aunt, solving a murder — through food.”
From New York Times • Sep. 5, 2022
In 1968, Dodie Wells, the agony aunt for Petticoat magazine explained:
From Salon • Jun. 11, 2022
The author Cheryl Strayed is credited with pioneering this more ambitious incarnation of the agony aunt.
From The Guardian • Oct. 22, 2020
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