as in similar
having qualities in common
reading and writing are actually correspondent activities
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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
Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
On Wednesday morning, the president told ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl that the United States may try to get a cut of the tolls Iran is charging.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 8 Apr. 2026
Also Doug Heye, who served as communications director for the RNC; and our senior political correspondent Rachel Scott.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, weighing in at a thousand pages and containing over 1,400 letters (additions to the 3,766 letters that were published in six volumes, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, between 1975 and 1980), is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Noun
Doyle Rice is a national correspondent for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate.
—Doyle Rice, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2026
On Wednesday morning, the president told ABC News chief White House correspondent Jonathan Karl that the United States may try to get a cut of the tolls Iran is charging.
—Victor Tangermann, Futurism, 8 Apr. 2026
Also Doug Heye, who served as communications director for the RNC; and our senior political correspondent Rachel Scott.
—ABC News, 5 Apr. 2026
The Uncollected Letters of Virginia Woolf, weighing in at a thousand pages and containing over 1,400 letters (additions to the 3,766 letters that were published in six volumes, edited by Nigel Nicolson and Joanne Trautmann, between 1975 and 1980), is arranged alphabetically by correspondent.
—Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for correspondent
Adjective
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Wing is a subsidiary of Alphabet that has similar partnerships with Walmart and Wendy’s.—
Jibin Joseph,
PC Magazine,
9 Apr. 2026
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Planet Labs is among a variety of companies that provide satellite imaging services, and some of the others may be making similar decisions.—
Chelsea Gohd,
Space.com,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Associated Press reporters Holly Ramer, Isabella Volmert and Marc Levy contributed to this report.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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Speaking to reporters Tuesday, Robert Macedonio, an attorney for Ellerup and daughter Victoria Heuermann, stressed his clients were not involved in Rex Heuermann’s alleged crimes.—
Nicki Brown,
CNN Money,
8 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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These are not real feelings, Anthropic’s researchers emphasized, but patterns in the model’s neural activations that guide its responses, shaping decisions, preferences, and outputs in ways loosely analogous to human emotions.—
Jeremy Kahn,
Fortune,
7 Apr. 2026
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Compared to last year, arrests were down 14% citywide over an analogous 30-day spring break period, according to Miami Beach police.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Shayla Martin is an award-winning travel and culture journalist based in Washington, DC.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
6 Apr. 2026
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Chesky stayed in contact with the tech journalist Kara Swisher, relaying criticism of the board.—
Ronan Farrow,
New Yorker,
6 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Why is a woman artist selling for one price when a comparable male artist is at a completely different level?—
Daniel Cassady,
ARTnews.com,
6 Apr. 2026
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Other candidates The rest of the field, for the most part, does not appear to have secured as many high-profile endorsements or raised comparable campaign funding.—
Ethan Varian,
Mercury News,
5 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The Accommodations On Mustique, no two villas are alike.—
Flora Stubbs,
Travel + Leisure,
5 Feb. 2026
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The rooms In the Agassiz mansion, no two rooms are alike.—
Todd Plummer,
Condé Nast Traveler,
4 Feb. 2026
Adjective
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Consider taking a winter storm kit along with you, including such items as tire chains, booster cables, flashlight, shovel, blankets and extra clothing.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
9 Apr. 2026
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For decades, the understanding was that social-media companies were essentially immune from any such legal liability.—
Jeannie Suk Gersen,
New Yorker,
9 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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The process rapidly reduces the number of infected red blood cells in the patient’s system, replacing them with donor cells, corresponding author David Leaf told STAT.—
O. Rose Broderick,
STAT,
3 Apr. 2026
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The war and its corresponding surge in energy prices effectively pushes inflation higher and that has dashed hopes for the Fed to cut interest rates.—
Damian J. Troise,
Los Angeles Times,
2 Apr. 2026
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“Correspondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/correspondent. Accessed 12 Apr. 2026.
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