Thesaurus results for ANCHORPERSONS

anchorpersons

noun

variants or anchorpeople

plural of anchorperson

as in newscasters

one who reads and introduces news reports on a news program the new anchorperson did an admirable job of dealing with the late-breaking news story

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Noun

There’s something powerful—and, yes, stripped down—about seeing these politicians and newscasters without being able to hear their language.

— Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 24 July 2026
The group ventriloquized the voices of authority—parents, school principals, cops, military officers, judges, politicians, newscasters, Soviet apparatchiks—and turned them into expressions of mass insanity.

— Andrew Katzenstein, The New York Review of Books, 19 Mar. 2026

Definition of newscasters

Noun

After holding steady last year while commercial broadcasters such as Canal+ and TF1 scaled back, the public broadcaster will reduce its investment in film by €5 million in 2026.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
Once broadcasters enter the Pete Maher broadcast booth — named after the longtime, legendary Flames broadcaster — they’re treated to some of the best sight lines in the league for broadcasters.

— Julian McKenzie, New York Times, 3 Feb. 2026

Definition of broadcasters

Noun

The announcers continued to call out Fletcher’s lack of urgency in between moves.

— Alfred Konuwa, Forbes.com, 27 July 2026
The Athletic counted, downloaded and listened to all 308 goals over 104 games, as called by Telemundo’s nine announcers, and found the longest call of the men’s World Cup.

— Emily Olsen, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of announcers

Noun

If starry galaxies are like bright ships on a cosmic sea, then supermassive black holes are like their dark anchors.

— Mary Randolph, Scientific American, 29 July 2026
Count New York University, Mount Sinai-Union Square Hospital, Zeckendorf Towers and other residential high rises as anchors as well.

— David Moin, Footwear News, 28 July 2026

Definition of anchors

Noun

As far as the production approach to Sunday, Telemundo anticipates having its biggest canvas yet, with correspondents delivering reports and setting the scene from Spain and Argentina.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 July 2026
Both veteran correspondents appeared on air about 15 minutes later, wholly composed, without any indication as to what had transpired.

— Jami Ganz, New York Daily News, 16 July 2026

Definition of correspondents

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