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An example use of columnist in a speech by a native speaker of american english:
“… in 2013 larry olmsted food columnist for …”
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the word columnist occurs in english on average 3.5 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.
it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that columnist can be often used in the following areas:
1) business and work;
2) leisure and entertainment;
3) people, society, and culture;