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reviewer

American  
[ri-vyoo-er] / rɪˈvju ər /

noun

reviewers plural
  1. a person who reviews.

  2. a person who reviews books, plays, etc.


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Etymology

Origin of reviewer

First recorded in 1605–15; review + -er 1

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Reviewer Patrick Freyne adds: "They have taken on a more euphoric register as they've aged."

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

Reviewer David Kipen celebrated Wallace’s “stupendously high-toned vocabulary and gleeful low-comedy diction, coupled with a sense of syntax so elongated that he can seem to go for days without surfacing.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2025

The conclusion in the report of Reviewer Gamma wryly noted that this match, if true, would herald a major discovery — “a novel universality in nature” that different materials under different conditions behave the same.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2023

Reviewer Mary Guiden noted that, at first, as Swift reenacted her music video for “You Belong With Me,” it seemed that “Disney had hijacked the show.”

From Seattle Times • Jul. 21, 2023

Beauties there were too, past, present, and some, coming; a fair share of the notorieties of fashion, and the last winner of the Derby, with—let me not forget him—a Quarterly Reviewer.

From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

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