commentator
noun
com·men·ta·tor
ˈkä-mən-ˌtā-tər 
: one who provides commentary: such as
a
: one who reports and discusses news (as on television)
b
: a sportscaster who provides commentary during live events
a color commentator
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Cal Newport, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
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Cal Newport, New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2025
Shot in the jungles of Sumatra — a large Indonesian island — the documentary follows a multigenerational family of these gentle and pragmatic creatures, capturing the orangutans’ social dynamics and travels through the trees in a film narrated by everyone’s favorite nature commentator.
—Tomris Laffly, Entertainment Weekly, 25 Dec. 2025
Progressive Substack writers and commentators blasted out the clips and urged people to share them.
—Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 23 Dec. 2025
Later, when no further details came out, online commentators started wondering if the hospitalizations were just a hoax.
—Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic, 23 Dec. 2025
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“Commentator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/commentator. Accessed 31 Dec. 2025.
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commentator
noun
com·men·ta·tor
ˈkäm-ən-ˌtāt-ər
: a person who gives a commentary
especially
: a person who reports and discusses news on radio or television
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