foreign correspondent

noun

Definition of foreign correspondentnext
as in correspondent

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Recent Examples of foreign correspondent Efrat Lachter is a foreign correspondent for Fox News Digital covering international affairs and the United Nations. — Efrat Lachter, FOXNews.com, 15 May 2026 In either late May or early June, Patricia Lochridge, an American journalist who was a foreign correspondent in Germany during the war, was made mayor for the day of Berchtesgaden, near the Austrian border where Hitler owned a mountain retreat. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026 Caputo’s work as a foreign correspondent came with hazards. — Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 8 May 2026 In the United States, newspapers began to cover music in Horace Greeley’s New-York Tribune in 1852 with journalist William Henry Fry’s work in Europe as a foreign correspondent for a group of newspapers including the Tribune. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreign correspondent
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  1. correspondent
  2. reporter
  3. journalist
  4. interviewer
  5. newsman
  6. newsperson
  7. stringer
Noun
  • Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal contributed from Mexico City.
    — Mery Mogollón, Los Angeles Times, 5 July 2026
  • Monica Alba Monica Alba is a White House correspondent for NBC News.
    — Monica Alba, NBC news, 5 July 2026
Definition of correspondent
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  • Mexico’s government has already issued 11 diplomatic notes of protest to the US over the deaths of its citizens, Foreign Minister Roberto Velasco told reporters.
    — Mauricio Torres, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
  • In some of the cases, the subpoenas were delivered by federal agents who showed up at the reporters homes, the newspaper said.
    — Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 11 July 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    — CA Weather Bot, Sacbee.com, 16 July 2026
  • The drama The Housewife centers around a New York Times journalist who tracks down a potential Nazi officer living secretly in Queens.
    — Anthony D'Alessandro, Deadline, 16 July 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • Finally, the paper acknowledges that the study’s interviewer was not blind to the C9 status of its participants and went in with a specific hypothesis—circumstances that risk bias.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
  • Suki, a vocal Black woman with an at times vulgar persona, whereas Althoff, a white woman, gained a reputation as an awkward, seemingly timid interviewer on her The Really Good Podcast.
    — Meagan Jordan, VIBE.com, 10 July 2026
Definition of interviewer
Noun
  • Candidates like actress Mayim Bialik, newsman Anderson Cooper, and Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
  • Nelson wrote that the retiring newsman was a hobbyless man, which Cotliar-Zweifach said was a fair statement.
    — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 9 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
  • In Indonesia, a stringer walks through a village, or at least what was once a village before the mud flowed down from a forest and swept the village along with it.
    — Wyatt Williams, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026
  • It’s also made Boston’s defense more susceptible, as Vucevic and third-stringer Luka Garza both are downgrades at that end.
    — Zack Cox, Boston Herald, 30 Apr. 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 18 Jul. 2026.

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