Sample Sentences for
critic
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critic as in:  a well-known art critic

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    The literary critic admired the novel's complex characters and insightful exploration of human nature.
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    Is there something you want, or are you just an art critic today?  (source)
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    Then again, my high-waters and medium-size suit jacket didn't exactly qualify me as a fashion critic.  (source)
    critic = someone who shares expert judgement
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    Four days after the letter appeared in Pravda, Soso took a moment before addressing the Plenum to approach this new film critic and compliment him on his turns of phrase.  (source)
    critic = an expert who shares professional opinions in a specific field
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    No wonder books stopped selling, the critics said.  (source)
    critics = people who share professional opinions in a specific field
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    Then I read it to Matthew and he said it was fine. That is the kind of critic I like.  (source)
    critic = someone who shares considered judgement of something
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    Some critics have even drawn parallels between McCandless and the Arctic's most infamous tragic figure, Sir John Franklin, a nineteenth-century British naval officer whose smugness and hauteur contributed to some 140 deaths, including his own.  (source)
    critics = people who share expert judgement
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    Literature, as the great Canadian critic Northrop Frye observed, grows out of other literature; we should not be surprised to find, then, that it also looks like other literature.  (source)
    critic = an expert who shares professional opinions in a specific field
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    Attentive critics of courthouse business, Atticus said they knew as much law as the Chief Justice, from long years of observation.  (source)
    critics = people who share expert judgement
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    Me in love would be like being a food critic with no taste buds.†  (source)
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    With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be.  (source)
    critics = people who analyze and evaluate to form judgments
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    Time for some feedback from Nate Wright, Art Critic.†  (source)
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    For decades, these two paintings have been revered by our public, praised by our critics, and sketched by our diligent students of the arts.  (source)
    critics = people who share professional opinions in a specific field
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critic as in:  a constant critic of my cooking

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Despite knowing little about the project, she was quick to act as a critic, pointing out flaws in every decision.
critic = someone who expresses disapproval
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    She became a constant critic of his cooking, always finding something to complain about.
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    I'm my best and harshest critic.  (source)
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    Dr. Shamsher had been an outspoken critic of the Taliban.  (source)
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    And I'm sure there are plenty of other Alaskans who had a lot in common with McCandless when they first got here, too, including many of his critics.  (source)
    critics = detractors (people who expressed disapproval)
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    As a child I'd read those letters as an act of worship; now I read them with different eyes, not the eyes of a critic, but also not the eyes of a disciple.  (source)
    critic = someone who expresses disapproval
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    These people, she thought, would be merciless critics.  (source)
    critics = people who express disapproval
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    By the time he retired, he'd become the Court's most vocal critic of excessive punishment and mass incarceration.  (source)
    critic = someone who expresses disapproval
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    Goethe had described architecture as frozen music, and Pei's critics described this pyramid as fingernails on a chalkboard.  (source)
    critics = people who express disapproval
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    But many kept coming: Imran Khan, the cricketer-turned-politician; Mian Iftikhar Hussein, the provincial information minister and outspoken critic of the Taliban, whose only son had been shot dead by them; and the chief minister of our province, Haider Hoti, with whom I had appeared on talk-show discussions.  (source)
    critic = someone who expresses disapproval
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    Let's assume the critics of the Constitution are brilliant and they can write a better constitution.  (source)
    critics = people who express disapproval
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    In a speech to the Empire Club last evening, Mr. Richard E. Griffen, Toronto financier and outspoken President of Royal Classic Knitwear, had moderate praise for Prime Minister R.B. Bennett and brickbats for his critics.  (source)
    critics = detractors (people who expressed disapproval)
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    They were literary critics, and they thought Billy was one, too.†  (source)
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    Oh, yes, I hear you critics out there: You're the god of prophecy, Apollo.†  (source)
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