【每日一词】pundit - n. (某方面的)专家,权威;博学者;梵文学者[a Hindu priest 印度教教士]
Definition: noun
1: PANDIT
2: a learned person : TEACHER
3: a person who gives opinions in an authoritative manner usually through the mass media : CRITIC
Synonyms
- sage,savant,scholar
Example Sentences
a moral question that has puzzled the pundits throughout the ages
the new mini laptop has gotten a thumbs-up from industry pundits
Recent Examples on the Web
Over the last few weeks, the White House has joined left-of-center economists (and pundits and politicians) in fretting that the voting public isn’t giving Biden enough credit.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 Aug. 2023
By afternoon, media pundits and experts were anxiously discussing whether Romania and therefore NATO were under attack.
—Andrew Higgins, New York Times, 9 Aug. 2023
Conservative pundits like Matt Walsh and author Jeff Minick invoke toxic femininity to oppose feminism writ large.
—Karrin Vasby Anderson, Fortune, 8 Aug. 2023