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critique

[kri-teek]

noun

  1. an article or essay criticizing a literary or other work; detailed evaluation; review.

  2. a criticism or critical comment on some problem, subject, etc.

  3. the art or practice of criticism.



verb (used with object)

critiqued, critiquing 
  1. to review or analyze critically.

critique

/ ɪˈپː /

noun

  1. a critical essay or commentary, esp on artistic work

  2. the act or art of criticizing

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of critique1

First recorded in 1695–1705; from French, from Greek پḗ “the art of criticism,” noun use of feminine of پó “critical, skilled in judging”; replacing critic
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Word History and Origins

Origin of critique1

C17: from French, from Greek پŧ, from kritikos able to discern
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Standing alongside a hundred civic leaders as police sirens blared in the background, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass delivered her most impassioned critique of the federal response to anti-ICE protests to date Thursday.

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Folk in the Treasury are aware of this critique and particularly those who might point to some squeezed day-to-day budgets and claim we are experiencing what they see as austerity.

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The collective longing for a sturdier system, currently molting in tradwife TikToks and behind the paywall of Andrew Tate’s Hustlers University, is supported by a scaffolding of legitimate critique.

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A day earlier, the president had been more pointed in her critique of U.S. immigration roundups, which have drawn widespread outrage here.

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I’d like to see Dylan mix it up with his critique and commentary a bit more.

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