announcers

plural of announcer
as in hosts
a person who conducts a program of entertainment by making introductions and providing continuity announcer for the Indy 500

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Recent Examples of announcers 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 I'mPhaedra Trethan, bummed out to hear one of my favorite baseball announcers has been let go in a round of ESPN layoffs. Phaedra Trethan, USA Today, 21 July 2026 One thing that is expected to remain a constant is the local announcers that fans are used to hearing. ABC News, 21 July 2026 Then there are wagers on points scored in the first half of the game, an individual player's performance, what sports announcers will say live and endless other possible outcomes. Bobby Allyn, NPR, 17 July 2026 Never mind that Canales doesn’t speak Spanish himself — the way that Telemundo announcers start talking faster as the action on the pitch intensifies is its own kind of language. Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 16 July 2026 Bouncing between announcers in a booth and on the field limited the show’s momentum for what is arguably sports’ last great exhibition. Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 14 July 2026 The announcers previously noted in the broadcast that cameras wouldn’t catch any shot of Chiefs players because of the Swift-Kelce nuptials. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026
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Noun
  • The theater hosts approximately 20,000 students on a yearly basis, most of whom come from Title I school districts, which serve students from low-income families.
    Hunter Sowards, CBS News, 6 Aug. 2026
  • But the film does not explain what ‘hospitality’ has to do with a narrative situation in which the Greeks have been besieging Troy for 10 years already [which Nolan’s movie does not depict]; the Trojans are not their hosts but their enemies in war.
    Zack Sharf, Variety, 5 Aug. 2026
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
Noun
  • The chatter caused the emcees to not-so-playfully shush the crowd several times.
    Jared Perlo, NBC news, 6 June 2026
  • Gregg’s lawsuit also described the experiences of WNBA players Sophie Cunningham and Erica Wheeler, Adidas athletes who participated as emcees in the NBA’s All-Star Weekend in February.
    Mike Wilson, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2026

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“Announcers.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/announcers. Accessed 9 Aug. 2026.

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