sportswriter

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Recent Examples of sportswriter Richard Dunn, a longtime sportswriter, writes the Dunn Deal column regularly for The Orange County Register’s weekly, The Coastal Current North. Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 18 Sep. 2025 The Patriots’ record fell to 2-2 and sportswriters rushed to write the Patriots’ obituary. Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Sep. 2025 Born on July 4, 1937, in Newark, NJ, Matzner worked as a sportswriter before turning his attention to marketing. Erik Pedersen, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025 The author and sportswriter Art Chansky grew up in Newton, Massachusetts, near Boston. Paige Williams, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for sportswriter
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Noun
  • In practice, Musk bowed to authoritarian governments or banned critical journalists when their reporting annoyed him.
    Jacob Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The creation of this content included the use of AI based on templates created, reviewed and edited by journalists in the newsroom.
    NC Weather Bot, Charlotte Observer, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Speaking to reporters for the first time since the opener, Prince on Friday took responsibility for the late substitutions that contributed to two damaging delay of game penalties late in the Week 2 loss against the Patriots.
    Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 26 Sep. 2025
  • And in that present, Fugazi’s drummer, a scholar of caste, and a border reporter are no longer distant figures.
    Javier Garcia del Moral September 26, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • See more photos from Courier Journal photojournalist Scott Utterback.
    Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 29 Sep. 2025
  • Armed Only with a Camera, the HBO Oscar-contending short directed by Craig Renaud, explores the death of Renaud’s brother, Brent Renaud, a filmmaker and photojournalist who was killed in 2022 while covering the war in Ukraine.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • In that movie Beatty cast himself as a politically naïve newsman who became sympathetic to the Bolshevik (later Communist) cause.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Clooney, the son of a career newsman himself, has worked tirelessly to convey the gravity and valor of Murrow’s legacy.
    Maureen Lee Lenker, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At the Social Security Administration, the email came from Commissioner Frank Bisignano, according to a staffer who requested anonymity for fear of retaliation.
    Shannon Bond, NPR, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Instead of focusing on the defense industrial base, the upcoming national defense strategy, or preparing to face threats across the Indo-Pacific and Europe, Hegseth talked about fitness tests and haircuts, coming across as pedantic for a room of seasoned commanders, the staffer said.
    Anne Flaherty, ABC News, 30 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But as our Mexico correspondent learns, traditions in Mexico are very hard to break.
    Greg Dixon, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA TODAY who have written about hurricanes, violent weather and climate change for decades.
    Doyle Rice, USA Today, 26 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Considering Gabriel completed each of his three passes and threw for a touchdown in his lone appearance this season, some have wondered if Sanders will ever be more than a third-stringer.
    Hunter Simpson, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Backup Anthony Carrie had 11 touches, and third-stringer Devonte Lyons got nine.
    Walter Villa, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • But an obsession with the truth is at the heart of every newspaperman, even a cynic like Cyrus.
    Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • According to a 2023 account in the Washington Post, the publisher was moved by a parade of witnesses who attested that Roosevelt, though boisterous, only drank modestly; on the stand, the newspaperman withdrew his claims.
    David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Sep. 2025

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“Sportswriter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sportswriter. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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