Phrase guide
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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
noun
A journalist or pundit, especially one on television, who presents or discusses issues of the day.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: also, attributive, idiomatic
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Antonyms: none provided
noun
a talker on television who talks directly into the cameras and whose upper body is all that is shown on the screen
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: speaker, talker, utterer, verbalizer, verbaliser
History
Probably from the fact that when a pundit is speaking on television, the camera often zooms in on his or her head.
Across languages
7 source translations are retained for this English entry.
