foreign correspondent

noun

Definition of foreign correspondentnext
as in correspondent

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Recent Examples of foreign correspondent Trump told Fox News chief foreign correspondent Trey Yingst in an interview released Tuesday. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 July 2026 Copyright © 2026 by Lynda Schuster Lynda Schuster is a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who worked in Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 Trey Yingst, the Fox News foreign correspondent, offers dispatches via TikTok. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 May 2026 How does that experience—writing without a byline as a sort of anonymous commenter—compare to your other work as a foreign correspondent writing from India, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran? — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreign correspondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreign correspondent
  1. correspondent
  2. reporter
  3. journalist
  4. interviewer
  5. newsman
  6. newsperson
  7. stringer
Noun
  • Our correspondents live around the world and bring a global perspective to their work.
    — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 9 Oct. 2026
  • As part of our 2026 Guide to the Arts in PRIME Magazine, correspondent Greg Carannante offers his Critic’s Picks for the best pop music acts coming up in South Florida.
    — Greg Carannante, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of correspondent
Noun
  • The row reached the competition jury’s press conference the day after the opening ceremony, where a reporter raised the question of historical fact and creative freedom.
    — Ophélie Surcouf, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • One of my favorite quotes about Kansas City barbecue comes from a news reporter in Milwaukee.
    — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • Tejedor is a Swiss filmmaker and journalist whose work explores utopias and the relationship between individuals and authority across the former Soviet Union and its satellite states.
    — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 16 Oct. 2026
  • The local journalists who cover the Bend community every day were not immune from the grief and sadness after today’s deadly shooting of children at an elementary school.
    — Phil Helsel, NBC news, 16 Oct. 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • The interviewer has asked their questions of you as a candidate.
    — Sarah Jackson, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2026
  • This year, voters identified as Democrats on the voter file were less likely to be contacted successfully for the poll than Republicans, regardless of whether they were contacted by a text message or live phone interviewer.
    — Scott Clement, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of interviewer
Noun
  • Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Candidates like actress Mayim Bialik, newsman Anderson Cooper, and Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
Definition of newsman
Noun
  • This is an office only a newsperson could love.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The iconic newsperson died Friday evening her representative Cindi Berger tells PEOPLE.
    — Stephen M. Silverman, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2022
Definition of newsperson
Noun
  • Raiola was so awful, going 6-19 for 43 yards and two interceptions, that Lanning benched him for third stringer Brock Thomas.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026
  • The stringer had felt the chug of that boat and heard the clap of the mullet, not Bragg.
    — Charles Bethea, New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of stringer

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