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Allen, who was the 49ers’ third-stringer in 2023 behind Brock Purdy and Darnold, has spent time with six teams in his 10-season career and knows not all offensive staffs are created equally.
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Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
The man in his 50s was discovered inside his white Toyota sedan in a parking structure along Century Boulevard near LAX, according to footage broadcast by RMG News, a stringer news service.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
With Jayden Daniels shut down and Marcus Mariota dealing with a leg injury, the Commanders (5-12) started Johnson, their 39-year-old third-stringer.
—CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
And now San Francisco is likely down its two starting linebackers (one of which is already a second-stringer), on top of all the team’s other season-defining injuries.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
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Eric Branch, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
The man in his 50s was discovered inside his white Toyota sedan in a parking structure along Century Boulevard near LAX, according to footage broadcast by RMG News, a stringer news service.
—Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 29 Jan. 2026
With Jayden Daniels shut down and Marcus Mariota dealing with a leg injury, the Commanders (5-12) started Johnson, their 39-year-old third-stringer.
—CBS News, 4 Jan. 2026
And now San Francisco is likely down its two starting linebackers (one of which is already a second-stringer), on top of all the team’s other season-defining injuries.
—Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 4 Jan. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for stringer
Noun
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Jane Kirtley, a former reporter, lawyer and longtime UMN professor, was awarded the John Borger Lifetime Achievement Award Wednesday night.—
Mars King,
Twin Cities,
28 May 2026
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Jakob Rodgers is a senior breaking news reporter.—
Jakob Rodgers,
Mercury News,
28 May 2026
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Loud explosions were heard in the Ukrainian capital, causing a residential building near the government district to shake, while dozens took shelter in an underground metro station in the city center, according to Agence France-Presse journalists.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
24 May 2026
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Video taken by local media in the courtyard and inside the building showed clouds of tear gas as riot police stormed through the premises, before journalists were removed by the police.—
Cinar Kiper,
Los Angeles Times,
24 May 2026
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The morning after the leak, toxins still hanging in the air, Raghu Rai, a photojournalist from Delhi, arrived in the city to document the aftermath of the disaster.—
Taran Dugal,
New Yorker,
23 May 2026
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Twenty-four years ago, Arizona photojournalist Gilbert Zermeño, who contracted hantavirus after losing both his mother and sister to the illness, says news of the recent outbreak has been hard to process.—
Kierra Frazier,
CBS News,
9 May 2026
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So, in one sportswriter’s opinion, the championship will come down to Point Loma and Mater Dei Classic.—
Don Norcross,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
18 May 2026
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As sportswriter Raymond Barone, Romano kept the laughs coming through interactions with his overbearing parents and put-upon wife Debra.—
Kate Hogan,
PEOPLE,
16 May 2026
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Another ex-staffer, maid Charlotte Briggs, echoed this sentiment in a 2022 interview with The Sun.—
Hannah Malach,
InStyle,
22 May 2026
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An influencer turned campaign staffer for gubernatorial candidate Xavier Becerra quietly amended his social media posts to include a disclaimer that he was paid following uproar that rival candidate Tom Steyer had paid influencers to boost him online.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
20 May 2026
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Vega joined the newsmagazine in 2023, becoming the program’s first Latina correspondent.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
29 May 2026
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In the early 1980s, Morrison was a co-host and political correspondent for the CBC Network’s The Journal, a nightly news and current affairs program.—
Dateline NBC,
NBC news,
29 May 2026
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David Ross, considered There’s David Ross, who, after a decade as a newsman became a public defender.—
The Editorial Board,
Daily News,
19 May 2026
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Veteran newsman Don Lemon won a 2026 Webby Award for The Don Lemon Show and my interview with him was so gripping about the responsibility of journalism that the whole thing needs to be read.—
Joshua Dudley,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2026
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Famous American muckrakers include Ida Tarbell who wrote about Standard Oil’s monopoly; Lincoln Steffens who wrote about corruption in city halls; and Upton Sinclair who exposed deplorable conditions in the meatpacking industry.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
21 May 2026
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One spring day, Tan’s critical gaze landed on the work of freelance journalist Gil Duran, a tech-industry muckraker with a background in Democratic politics who was starting to take very seriously the right-wing political ambitions of San Francisco tech moguls.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
15 Oct. 2025
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“Stringer.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stringer. Accessed 30 May. 2026.
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