advice column

Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words

A column in a newspaper or magazine offering advice to readers who write in with their problems.

Categories:

Examples (10)

  • She religiously reads the advice column in the Sunday paper.
  • Feeling desperate, he decided to write to an advice column for guidance on his relationship problems.
  • For twenty years, she wrote a popular advice column under a pseudonym.
  • He thinks the solutions offered in most advice columns are too generic to be helpful.
  • Many online magazines now feature an interactive advice column where readers can comment.
  • I remember my grandmother used to cut out clippings from the advice column.
  • As a psychologist, she dreams of one day starting her own syndicated advice column.
  • Do you think the advice given in that famous advice column is actually reliable?
  • The magazine launched a new advice column specifically for financial and career questions.
  • The letter published in the advice column sparked a nationwide conversation about workplace ethics.