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sportswriter

noun

Definition of sportswriter

as in journalist

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Recent Examples of sportswriter Former Orlando Sentinel sportswriter George Diaz reflects on the same theme that many others remember. — Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 10 June 2026 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, 4 June 2026 His work as a freelance sportswriter soon took him abroad for baseball. — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 3 June 2026 Patti Arnold, a longtime Grand Junction sportswriter and JUCO volunteer who died last year, wrote in a 2017 book on the tournament that fans would camp in front of Suplizio Field the night before the first JUCO game, before seating was expanded at the stadium. — James Burky, Denver Post, 29 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for sportswriter

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Noun

As with any Olympics, the 15,000 athletes and 25,000 broadcasters and journalists will ride buses in dedicated lanes.

— Barry Svrluga, New York Times, 24 July 2026
This summer, the Pentagon went a step further and declared that its press office was now a classified space inaccessible to journalists.

— ABC News, ABC News, 23 July 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

And then there are other analysts and reporters, such as Mark Clattenburg, Geoff Shreeves, Alex Aljoe and Katie Shanahan.

— Nick Miller, New York Times, 18 July 2026
There seems little chance that Times reporters will be in jail cells anytime soon; judges are unlikely to order that extreme step this early in the legal process.

— Ruth Marcus, New Yorker, 18 July 2026

Definition of reporter

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The film paints a portrait of pioneering photojournalist Gerda Taro, the German-Jewish war photographer, anti-fascist and artist whose legacy has long been overshadowed.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 23 July 2026
Monfort, who works as a freelance photojournalist for the AP, took the photos in 2007 as part of a charity calendar produced by local newspaper Sport and UNICEF.

— Joseph Wilson, Chicago Tribune, 18 July 2026

Definition of photojournalist

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Carboy did find the Harding memo in the archives of the late Village Voice muckraker Wayne Barrett, but the city has never produced it.

— New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 13 July 2026
Eric Bogosian’s leather jacket-wearing muckraker is still asking questions in season three of Interview With the Vampire, and the AMC series has been renamed in honor of Molloy’s latest subject.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 23 June 2026

Definition of muckraker

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Seven current employees and one former staffer have given money, including a $200,000 donation from research engineer Juan Felipe Cerón Uribe.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 July 2026
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Thursday that the president placed the staffer on leave and that the person is complying with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

— Maegan Vazquez, Washington Post, 16 July 2026

Definition of staffer

Noun

Gani is a banker and freelance journalist who is a correspondent for the X page ARG Soccer News, which has been responsible for posting videos capturing the mood in Bangladesh during this World Cup, such as the one below.

— Anantaajith Raghuraman, New York Times, 19 July 2026
As far as the production approach to Sunday, Telemundo anticipates having its biggest canvas yet, with correspondents delivering reports and setting the scene from Spain and Argentina.

— Dade Hayes, Deadline, 18 July 2026

Definition of correspondent

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

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