How to Use commentariat in a Sentence

commentariat

noun
  • There is more talk among the commentariat that the Supreme Court should have term limits.
    — Arkansas Online, 27 Sep. 2020
  • And most among the commentariat aren’t either, save those who are legal experts.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • This anxiety is not confined to the commentariat.
    — Yi-Ling Liu, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026
  • Judgment by the royal commentariat was swift and largely damning.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 10 Jan. 2020
  • Will this new version frame the Muses as the social-media commentariat?
    — Vulture, 2 Nov. 2022
  • 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
  • The bank’s collapse has inspired a predictable round of hand-wringing in the financial commentariat.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • What explains the right-wing commentariat’s special attraction to the substances?
    — Richard Cooke, The New Republic, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Will Biden, the Democrats and the commentariat really allow this to happen?
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 12 July 2024
  • Trump supporters swooned about the majesty of American justice, and the commentariat seethed.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 11 Mar. 2024
  • The liberal legal commentariat should stand back and let the master operate.
    — Noah Feldman, Star Tribune, 17 Mar. 2021
  • Meanwhile, the commentariat at large has taken them as license to indulge in unchecked, gleeful misogyny.
    — Kathleen Walsh, Glamour, 9 Oct. 2025
  • Moral rectitude, in some left-wing corners of the commentariat, is out; flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
    — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Moral rectitude, in some left-wing corners of the commentariat, is out; flagrant disregard of the social contract is in.
    — Thomas Chatterton Williams, The Atlantic, 23 Apr. 2026
  • 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
  • And yet, among the commentariat, there was a narrative building that Gauff wasn’t winning consistently enough.
    — Abby Aguirre, Vogue, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Suddenly, Congress and much of the conservative commentariat rose up in protest.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Mar. 2018
  • Drivers, pedestrians and cyclists all earned equal scorn among the OregonLive commentariat.
    — OregonLive.com, 14 Oct. 2017
  • The tech commentariat surely won’t be satisfied until Apple makes a trapezoidal iPhone soon.
    — Steven Aquino, Forbes, 3 Oct. 2024
  • By midnight, Israel’s boisterous commentariat was buzzing with all the possible coalitions that could emerge in coming weeks.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Sep. 2019
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Among the older commentariat, however, the dominant note was remorse and well wishes for Altman.
    — Eva Roytburg, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026
  • 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 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 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
  • Maybe Notre Dame can pull this recruitment out of the fire, even if the recruiting commentariat basically wrote off the Irish earlier this week.
    — Pete Sampson, The Athletic, 9 Aug. 2024

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