commentator

[US]/ˈkɒmənteɪtə(r)/
[UK]/ˈkɑːmənteɪtər/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.commentator
annotator
live broadcaster

Example Sentences

commentators put some of the blame on Congress.

The commentators made various conjectures about the outcome of the next election.

Political commentators are predicting that the minister will have to resign.

Several news commentators hit out at the president on his foreign policy.

Television sports commentators repeat the same phrases ad nauseam.

They're so lacking in confidence in the attraction of the games they televise that they feel they have to hype up with some hysterical commentator in order to get anyone to watch them.

Real-world Examples

The e-sports enthusiast has become an e-sports commentator.

Source: CRI Online December 2018 Collection

For some commentators, this amounted to a defeat.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Dong Can is a senior e-sports commentator.

Source: CRI Online December 2018 Collection

Ghanbar Naderi is a commentator on Iran's state-run Press TV.

Source: BBC Listening Collection January 2020

She was a TV commentator and daughter of nationalist philosopher Alexander Dugin.

Source: VOA Daily Standard September 2022 Collection

Since then Spitzer has been a politcial commentator, teacher and TV host.

Source: NPR News July 2013 Compilation

President Trump has picked a TV commentator Larry Kudlow as his new economic advisor.

Source: BBC Listening March 2018 Compilation

Soon enough, TikTok's amateur fashion commentators were declaring the Gap logo hoodie a full-on trend.

Source: The Guardian (Article Version)

To puzzle over all this, I'm joined by the FT's US financial commentator, Rob Armstrong.

Source: Financial Times

Historians may be a fraction kinder to Mrs May than today's commentators.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

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