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Merriam-Webster's top 10 nearest neighbors span comedians, podcasts, journalists, a TV show, a blog, and a fellow website — a mixed cluster with no single subcategory dominating and no score standing far above the rest.
The shape is flat: scores run from 0.99 down to 0.98 across the top 10, a band of less than two percentage points. John Oliver leads at 0.99, followed closely by Pod Save America (0.98) and Last Week Tonight (0.98) — a comedian and two podcast/radio properties at the top, but no single neighbor pulls away from the pack. Ari Shapiro (0.98) and Crooked Media (0.98) extend the cluster further into journalism and political podcasting. 538 Politics (0.98) and NPR (0.98) add a data-journalism blog and a public radio brand. Monica Lewinsky (0.98) as an activist and Five Thirty Eight (0.98) as a website round out the set, with Audie Cornish (0.98) as a second journalist at position ten.
Tallying the subcategories across the top 10: three are Podcasts and Radio, two are Journalists, one is a Comedian, one is a TV Show, one is a Blog, one is a Website, and one is an Activist. Merriam-Webster's own subcategory — Websites — appears once in the top 10 (Five Thirty Eight). The dominant thread running through the cluster is public-radio and political-media audiences: NPR properties, political podcasts, and the journalists and comedians who orbit that ecosystem.
This audience shape places Merriam-Webster squarely inside a public-media, civically engaged cluster rather than alongside other reference or information websites.
