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foreign correspondent

noun

Definition of foreign correspondentnext
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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
  • Don Riddell is an anchor and correspondent for CNN’s World Sport.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The plan set a target of increasing the share of bilateral trade conducted in national currencies from 68% in 2024 to 71% by 2026, while also seeking to expand correspondent accounts denominated in national currencies.
    — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
Definition of correspondent
Noun
  • My charge as a theme parks reporter has been to provide Central Floridians with the facts about what is happening or what is planned at our attractions.
    — Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
  • See Star-Telegram high school sports editor Charles Baggarly and reporter Darren Lauber’s predictions for 27 Fort Worth-area games.
    — Charles Baggarly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • Alongside Sarah Pigeon, Paul embodied the late attorney and journalist and made millions of viewers swoon at their screens.
    — Giovana Gelhoren, InStyle, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Netanyahu listed Mamdani’s rapport with streamer Hasan Piker, his hosting of a Palestinian journalist at Gracie Mansion and posts the mayor’s wife liked on social media as proof the mayor is antisemitic.
    — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • Any interviewer with distance from Jay, or perhaps refined skills as a journalist, may have approached the tracks more directly, and some topics here feel like they’re weighted with unturned stones.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Rather than hopping on a phone or Zoom call with a human recruiter, candidates are increasingly being asked to speak with an AI interviewer as the first step in the hiring process.
    — Sophie Caldwell Juhohn Lee, CNBC, 16 Sep. 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
  • But Chestnut, a special teams player and third-stringer at running back, does the look-at-me thing pregame.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The Rams quickly took the lead for good on third-stringer Simpson's 11-yard TD pass to fourth-string receiver Brennan Presley for a 10-7 lead.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of stringer

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“Foreign correspondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreign%20correspondent. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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