blogger

noun

blog·​ger ˈblȯ-gər How to pronounce blogger (audio)
ˈblä-
plural bloggers
Synonyms of bloggernext
: a person who writes for and maintains a blog
a food blogger
travel bloggers in Paris
One of the most valuable things I do as a blogger is read five or six news accounts of the same event and then present to my readers the bits and pieces that illuminate one another …— Kevin Drum

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The rub is the controversial blogger has been charged with witness intimidation and possibly faces new charges as Read’s retrial is set to get underway. — Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Mar. 2025 The downside is that Davenport and Flowers, who hate publicity, are filmed by the bloggers and their faces are all over the true-crime sites. — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 16 Mar. 2025 Some of his fellow bloggers took note and wished him well online. — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 11 Mar. 2025 What To Know Several of Russia's influential cabal of military bloggers, often used as indicators of battlefield changes in lieu of official statements from Moscow, reported advances by the Kremlin's troops around Sudzha on Tuesday. — Faisal Kutty, Newsweek, 11 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for blogger

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First Known Use

1999, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of blogger was in 1999

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