Thesaurus results for STRINGER

stringer

noun

Definition of stringer

as in reporter

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Recent Examples of stringer 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 Jacob Rizy, a center from Staples, is taking on a larger role with the Patriots ahead of the season after second-stringer Ben Brown went down in the preseason opener. — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026 The starting quarterback for the Dolphins was third-stringer Cam Miller, with Willis and Ewers out. — David Furones, Sun Sentinel, 22 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for stringer

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Noun

The governor-elect, speaking to reporters Thursday afternoon inside the state Capitol, had just concluded a meeting with Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro-Tempore Monique Limón.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Former baseball All-Star Mark Teixeira won a congressional seat in Texas, former football coach Tommy Tuberville won the Alabama governor’s race, but former NFL sideline reporter Michele Tafoya lost her Senate race in Minnesota.

— Mike Bianchi, The Orlando Sentinel, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of reporter

Noun

Unlike journalists seeking records through the California Public Records Act, the watchdog can compel internal agency records.

— Julie Watts, CBS News, 5 Nov. 2026
There are claims that Cabinet officials, politicians, journalists, civil society leaders and business executives were also subjected to unauthorized surveillance.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of journalist

Noun

Sarah Gordon is a photojournalist for the Connecticut Mirror.

— Sarah Gordon, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026
Omer Shamir France Fleeing from Khan Younis, award-winning Palestinian photojournalist Mohammed Zaanoun moves his immediate family to safety in Egypt, unsure of what’s to come.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of photojournalist

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The following year, a New York sportswriter named Aloysious Palma made the point plainly.

— Zachary Kranc, Sun Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2026
But he will mostly be remembered for his profanity-laden rant aimed at a sportswriter in the media room after Game 2 of the ALDS — a White Sox win, by the way.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of sportswriter

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The July Tribune investigation about Welch and Benton also revealed that the speaker himself had interacted with the former Benton staffer on social media, including responding to images of her with heart-eye emojis.

— Jeremy Gorner, Chicago Tribune, 5 Nov. 2026
But his campaign was beset by questions about people in Collins' circle, including a former staffer who reportedly shared Nazi and KKK images on social media.

— Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 4 Nov. 2026

Definition of staffer

Noun

On this episode of The Sunday Story, NPR's senior political correspondent Tamara Keith discusses the turbulent and unpredictable political landscape of this years' midterm election.

— NPR, NPR, 1 Nov. 2026
By the early 1930s, 29 hot-type machines pressed reports sent by correspondents around the world.

— Aaron Glantz, Christian Science Monitor, 31 Oct. 2026

Definition of correspondent

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

Other activists who were inspired by Thoreau’s views on nonviolent resistance include Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi and American muckraker Upton Sinclair.

— René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
And Britain itself, after the financial and cultural boom of the ’90s, has in the post-recession era settled into its new role as butler to the world, to borrow a phrase from writer and money-laundering muckraker Oliver Bullough.

— Eliza Goodpasture, ARTnews.com, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of muckraker

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