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[PUN-dit] 
1. a source of opinion or commentary, especially authoritative in manner; a critic: "Be sure to fully develop your own opinions, as political pundits are often just as slanted as the candidates themselves."
2. a learned person or authority: "Your father's twenty year fascination with sky scrapers qualifies him as an architectural pundit of sorts, but it doesn�t make him an architect."
3. (as in Hinduism) a variant of 'pandit' (a Brahman scholar or learned man)
noun form: punditry
Origin:
Approximately 1672; from Hindi, 'paydit': a learned man or teacher; from Sanskrit, 'paydita': a learned man or scholar. In Action:
"The Nobel Prize, which he won in 1930, should have crowned Lewis's career but actually hastened its decline, not, perhaps, because Lewis himself grew cautious or overconfident, but because his selection was the subject of intense scrutiny and controversy; every literary pundit had an opinion on whether he deserved it, and many of the opinions were negative. His talents and accomplishments were furiously called into question while he was still in midcareer, and though he had supporters -- Edith Wharton telegraphed her congratulations -- the fact is that he never quite recovered, either as a writer or as a Famous Author."
Jane Smiley. "'Sinclair Lewis': All-American Iconoclast," The New York Times (January 20, 2002).
"Technologists have always said, 'It's a problem that can be solved with technology.' End users have said, 'Let's sue spammers into oblivion.' I think it's none of the above," said Tom Geller, the director of SpamCon and an author and pundit on the subject."
Matt Berger. "ISPs fight spam from the front line," CNN.com (May 29, 2001).
"The former first family of the Balkans has had a very bad year. The father, Slobodan, was packed off to The Hague and charged with genocide. His trial, the most important war crimes prosecution since Nuremberg, begins next month. The son, Marko, was indicted for threatening to chop up an opposition activist with a rotary saw and throw his body parts in a river. The daughter, Marija, went on trial for firing a pistol during a drug-and-alcohol-induced frenzy 10 months ago, on the night her father was arrested in the presidential mansion. And the mother, Mirjana, in the first of what Serbian police promise will be many criminal charges, was indicted for improperly using her influence to secure an apartment for her grandson's baby sitter.
[Marko] made himself a household name in Serbia by beating up people in bars and wrecking more than 20 luxury cars supplied to him by friends of his parents. He heightened that visibility by marrying Milica Gajic, a raven-haired woman whose considerable beauty has been enhanced by breast-enlargement surgery and procedures that puffed her lips. (Since Marko fled, Gajic has become something of a pundit, the fetching face of the former regime on Serbia's TV news programs.)"
Blaine Harden. "The Family Milosevic: The Unrepentant," The New York Times (January 20, 2002).
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