foreign correspondent

noun

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Recent Examples of foreign correspondent Rescuers are struggling to get to survivors, foreign correspondent Janis Mackey Frayer reports from Nepal. — Yasmin Vossoughian, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2026 Based in Mexico City as a foreign correspondent, Linthicum joined The Times in 2008. — Los Angeles Times, 29 July 2026 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 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
  • Wu plays Katie Buranek, a war correspondent for the fictional Voltstreem News.
    — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Illustration by Jeffrey Smith On June 4, 1952, Ernest Hemingway stood at his typewriter at Finca Vigía, his home outside Havana, and wrote to one of his favorite correspondents, Harvey Breit, of the Times Book Review.
    — Stephen Bates, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of correspondent
Noun
  • Watt joined play-by-play announcer Jim Nantz and sideline reporter Tracy Wolfson after Tony Romo went on leave following his July 23 arrest in Wisconsin.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 22 Oct. 2026
  • According to one of the student reporters, SB Nation’s Testudo Times journalist Nolan Rogalski, he and Jude Wilkenfeld believed they were permitted to stand outside the football complex because Maryland is a public university.
    — Trey Wallace OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • Kagame has led the country for decades, and his government has long been accused of abuses over its treatment of political opponents, journalists and other critics.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
  • If the report is so defective that nobody should rely on it, release it alongside the state’s criticisms and let lawmakers, journalists, insurance experts and Floridians examine both.
    — Matthew T. Christ, Sun Sentinel, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • What, for an interviewer, can come off as frustrating indifference might actually be the key to Mascis’ staying power — for better or worse.
    — Terrence O'Brien, The Verge, 18 Oct. 2026
  • Heated Rivalry star Hudson Williams, The Hangover‘s Zach Galifianakis and This is the End actor Jay Baruchel have signed up to be grilled by a cast of autistic and neurodivergent interviewers for the six-part series.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 15 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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