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adjective

ˌkȯr-ə-ˈspän-dənt How to pronounce correspondent (audio)
Definition of correspondentnext
as in similar
having qualities in common reading and writing are actually correspondent activities

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correspondent

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noun

as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news a correspondent in the Middle East bureau just filed a new report on the coup

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Recent Examples of correspondent
Noun
Allie Volpe is a correspondent at Vox covering mental health, relationships, wellness, money, home life, and work through the lens of meaningful self-improvement. — Allie Volpe, Vox, 29 Oct. 2026 Reid was one of CNN’s most high-profile correspondents, covering the Justice Department, Supreme Court and other legal matters. — Alex Weprin, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026 Maurice by then was thirty-one and a White House correspondent for the China News Service. — Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026 Wu plays Katie Buranek, a war correspondent for the fictional Voltstreem News. — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for correspondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for correspondent
  1. similar
  2. reporter
  3. analogous
  4. journalist
  5. comparable
  6. alike
  7. such
  8. corresponding
Adjective
  • American officials told the Wall Street Journal that Washington had conducted similar attacks secretly in recent weeks.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 3 Nov. 2026
  • Similarly, high-risk activities like mountain climbing, skydiving or something similar won't typically be covered (unless specific add-on coverage is included and paid for before traveling).
    — Matt Richardson, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of similar
Noun
  • When the casting was announced, a reporter suggested to Roddenberry that by the 24th century, in a time of faster-than-light starships, surely humankind would have found a cure for male pattern baldness, no?
    — Jordan Hoffman, Vanity Fair, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Reid will serve as the news outlet’s chief White House reporter, the latest addition to MS NOW’s journalistic ranks since its split from Comcast nearly a year ago.
    — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of reporter
Adjective
  • Thelema included three principal gods — Nuit, Hadit, and Ra Hoor Khuit — who are described as being analogous to the ancient Egyptian gods Isis, Osiris, and Horus.
    — Adam Harrington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Op de Beeck lauds it as an icon of midcentury design analogous to an Eames chair, and the product of exacting skill and patience.
    — Miles Socha, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of analogous
Noun
  • The essay convinced me that Woodward stopped being a journalist after his great work with Carl Bernstein during the Watergate fiasco.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 29 Oct. 2026
  • That would be Linda Godfrey, the Janesville, Wisconsin, journalist and cryptozoologist (the study of improbable animals) who died at 71 in 2022.
    — Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of journalist
Adjective
  • According to the cooperative, its Co+op Basics products, of which Field Day is a part, already offer prices up to 30% lower than comparable name-brand organic, natural, fair trade and non-GMO products.
    — Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 4 Nov. 2026
  • That puts Samsung roughly $100 below Apple at comparable storage levels.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of comparable
Adjective
  • America's most affluent suburbs are more alike than different.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • According to author Caroline Hallemann—whose book The Kennedys and the Windsors came out on June 2—the two women were even more alike than meets the eye.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 9 June 2026
Definition of alike
Adjective
  • At the start of this election cycle, the notion that Democrats would seriously compete in such deep-red bastions as Kansas, Mississippi, South Carolina and Texas would have seemed absurd.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2026
  • Most candidates from purple districts, with the exception of some backed by the Progressive Caucus, have shied away from such ambitious proposals.
    — Nicholas Wu, semafor.com, 4 Nov. 2026
Definition of such
Adjective
  • Instead of running through an infinite number of possibilities and checking whether the corresponding packing density is always lower than that proposed by Kepler, Fejes Tóth had proposed a way to examine just a finite number of cases.
    — Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
  • The corresponding figures for 2025 were 23 percent and 21 percent, based on respondents’ recollections rather than a separate survey conducted last year.
    — Alexandra Harrell, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
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