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
  • There was Sylvester Stallone, DJ Khaled, and Ashley Graham as well as VF special correspondent Derek Blasberg and OpenAI’s vice president of partnerships Charles Porch.
    — Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 2 Oct. 2026
  • As a determined floor correspondent at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, he was knocked down on camera by security guards while trying to interview a Georgia delegate whom the guards were removing from the convention floor.
    — Walter Podrazik, The Conversation, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of correspondent
Noun
  • The president was asked by reporters at the White House whether he had been briefed about any links between the pilot behind the attack and Tehran.
    — DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF FROM WIRE REPORTS, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • Horton, a former KTLA broadcaster who has worked as an anchor, reporter, host, play-by-play announcer and voice actor, reached out to the team about the opportunity.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • Hayoun, apologizing for his bloody shirt, within minutes was telling the prime minister and journalists what happened.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 2 Oct. 2026
  • The seven ‘Georgia’s Choice’ episodes will feature reporting and analysis from journalists across the AJC newsroom and beyond, contextualizing issues and candidate platforms spanning affordability, immigration, healthcare and more.
    — Hugo Rojo, AJC.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • The interviewer, suppressing a laugh, notes that his daughter has entered his office.
    — Victoria Edel, PEOPLE, 29 Sep. 2026
  • Red carpet interviewers have not yet been announced by MTV, but Snoop Dogg is set to host the main spectacle at Los Angeles’ Peacock Theater.
    — Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 27 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
  • However, Bagent is expected to serve as the backup to third-stringer Case Keenum, who will start, according to multiple reports.
    — Tom Ignudo, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026
  • Oladokun is listed as the Lions’ third stringer for Friday’s game against Saskatchewan, behind longtime starter Nathan Rourke (of Ohio and Jacksonville Jaguars preseason fame) and Colorado alum Kaidon Salter.
    — PJ Green September 24, Kansas City Star, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of stringer

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