foreign correspondent

noun

: a correspondent employed to send news or comment from a foreign country

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Khalil al-Hayya and Zaher Jabarin were the two targets of the Israeli strikes, Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst said Tuesday, citing initial reports. Greg Norman , Trey Yingst, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2025 Daniele Hamamdjian Daniele Hamamdjian is an NBC foreign correspondent based in London. Mo Abbas, NBC news, 13 Aug. 2025 Weil is currently adapting for United Artists and Conclave director Edward Berger the film about Evan Gershkovich, the Wall Street Journal‘s foreign correspondent who was thrown into a Russian prison for a year on bogus spying charges. Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2025 Spark’s new boss was a wildly imaginative and very demanding foreign correspondent of Falstaffian proportions named Sefton Delmer. Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 10 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for foreign correspondent

Word History

First Known Use

1881, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of foreign correspondent was in 1881

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“Foreign correspondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/foreign%20correspondent. Accessed 17 Sep. 2025.

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