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readers

noun

plural of reader

as in anthologies

a collection of writings I picked up a book entitled "An Emerson Reader" because it contained one or two of his essays I hadn't read before

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Recent Examples of readers Homer Glen in December approved installing 12 license plate readers on access points in the village, but to date only four are installed, Neitzke-Troike said. — Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 1 Sep. 2026 Until then, readers should take these issues as interesting hypotheses and case discussions. — Steve Denning, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2026 To celebrate the film’s release, Heller will answer readers’ questions in a live Q&A hosted by PEOPLE’s senior books editor Lizz Schumer. — Carly Tagen-Dye, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026 To start, readers nominated 40 bakeries crafting delicious sweet treats in Charlotte and the surrounding area, then narrowed down the field across five rounds of voting. — Heidi Finley, Charlotte Observer, 31 Aug. 2026 Yi offers her readers a dazzling cabinet of curiosities, exploring spirituality, desire and the desperate ways people grasp at each other. — Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2026 The Ars OpenForum is a place for readers to ask questions, compare notes, argue (without being jerks to each other), and go down all sorts of rabbit holes. — Eric Bangeman, ArsTechnica, 31 Aug. 2026 Some of this material is just a cut above cliché, a way of providing readers with a smattering of cultural reference. — David Denby, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 The company confirmed to Fortune that over half of new revenue is non-license plate readers. — Catherina Gioino, Fortune, 24 Aug. 2026

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The third chapter of my book on anthologies, The Treasuries, is about literary censorship in the early nineteenth century.

— Clare Bucknell, The New York Review of Books, 27 June 2026
Part of what fascinates and frustrates as regards Ginsberg is that for all of those thick anthologies, propriety forces me to concede that many of the poems simply aren’t that good.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 June 2026

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Some of his highlight compilations and training videos received tens of millions of views.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 26 Aug. 2026
Sure, Capcom's released a few compilations of the Blue Bomber's spin-off series, like the Mega Man Battle Network Collection, but there hasn't been a new mainline series entry since Mega Man 11 nearly a decade ago.

— Zackery Cuevas, PC Magazine, 26 Aug. 2026

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