"commentariat" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2000 January 22, Peter Sagal, “Wait, Wait...Don’t Tell Me!”, in National Public Radio:",
          "text": "From Boston, a man who finally joined the commentariat by making his debut on CNBC’s Hardball, Esquire Magazine writer-at-large, Charlie Pierce!",
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          "ref": "2010, Mungo MacCallum, The Monthly, April 2010, Issue 55, The Monthly Ptd Ltd, page 32",
          "text": "The world, of course, is seen by the commentariat as a side issue, yet another diversion from his real work, which is to answer whatever questions they see fit to pose."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2024, G. S. Hans, Law Professors Can’t Keep Carrying Water For the Supreme Court, in: Balls and Strikes, August 5 2024",
          "text": "As the dust settles on the Supreme Court’s cataclysmically destabilizing term, a very persistent question has bubbled up among the law professor commentariat: How the hell are we going to teach all this?"
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        "All the pundits and commentators of the news media collectively."
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        "(informal) All the pundits and commentators of the news media collectively."
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