How to Use pundit in a Sentence

pundit

noun
  • Or, as a politician spoke of it, or as a pundit, wrote or spoke about it?
    — Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 26 Aug. 2021
  • Enjeti is a young pundit on the rise, with a book, a TV show, and a podcast to his name.
    — Jack Butler, National Review, 2 Oct. 2020
  • One of the network pundits now joined the anchor onscreen.
    — Elliot Ackerman, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
  • From the get-go, pundits fretted that the abandon with which Nadal played would wear out his body.
    — Sean Gregory, TIME, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Their campaign for the playoffs will be the talk of the town, defying polls and pundits alike!
    — Daniel Kohn, SPIN, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro also hosted the pair on his show.
    — Ana Faguy, Forbes, 16 July 2023
  • At the time, pundits blamed older voters who didn’t want to vote for a gay love story.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2024
  • Not the assessments of polls, pols and pundits, but the votes cast by citizens.
    — Susan Page, USA Today, 2 Apr. 2025
  • Despite what pundits say, the 2024 U.S. election is not unique.
    — Michael Bruter and Sarah Harrison, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024
  • The public did the opposite — and so have a number of politicians and pundits.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Deal with it by leaving the choice of whether to attend up to this amateur pundit.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 25 Nov. 2020
  • As our favorite cable news pundit likes to say, watch this space.
    — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
  • This has led some pundits to worry that the company has lost its way.
    — James Morris, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2023
  • In middle age, Chappelle acts less like a comic and more like a pundit.
    — New York Times, 15 Oct. 2021
  • These two pairs are closer than some pundits seem to think, and the hands battles frequently seen at the net are a coin flip.
    — Todd Boss, Forbes, 10 Mar. 2025
  • His wildly out-of-the-mainstream call is sure to shock pollsters, pundits and Fortune‘s readers alike.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Both camps have been quiet since the weekend, with most rap pundits siding with Lamar as the winner.
    — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 9 May 2024
  • The problem is that much of what the pundit class imagines inflation to be quite simply isn’t.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 22 Jan. 2023
  • It is rarely mentioned by pollsters and pundits as a top-tier issue.
    — Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024
  • The words every pundit should have said earlier this week are the same ones every investor should have in mind most of the time.
    — Jason Zweig, WSJ, 6 Nov. 2020
  • Cotton’s office, in a statement to The Hill on Tuesday, denied the pundit’s claim.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 11 Mar. 2025
  • Many pundits have noted that the first two states are deep blue and high tax while the latter are red and do not levy state income taxes.
    — Steve H. Hanke, National Review, 22 Nov. 2023
  • My pundit friends forget the nature of the propeller heads.
    — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Many box office pundits are wondering if the film can even make it to the $150 million worldwide mark.
    — Zack Sharf, Variety, 30 Oct. 2023
  • The report ricocheted through the right-wing pundit universe.
    — Hanna Krueger, BostonGlobe.com, 15 July 2023
  • For Cruz, first elected in 2012, the hourlong show has been a way to promote his agenda, comment on the week’s events, snipe at Democrats and play pundit.
    — Dallas News, 10 Oct. 2022
  • What is clear is that the network has found its voice in Carlson, a longtime pundit who for years bounced around the margins of cable news.
    — Washington Post, 9 Dec. 2021
  • While fans, pundits, and the media often put together their best guesses at how the draft will shake out.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 19 Feb. 2025
  • As is so often the case with Trump, pundits have a tendency to assume a lack of seriousness or intention with what the president says.
    — Ed Simon, TIME, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Some pundits and lawmakers have suggested Trump is insisting on the idea as a means of distracting from other controversies his administration has stirred during his first three months in office.
    — Dominick Mastrangelo, The Hill, 1 Apr. 2025

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