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stringer

[string-er] / ˈstrɪŋ ər /


NOUN
foreign correspondent
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“He’d tie that stringer around my hand and let the fish pull me around the creek.”

From Slate Sep. 17, 2026

She previously covered corporate governance and financial regulation as an intern reporter at Bloomberg Law and reported on crime as a metro stringer at the New York Times.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 30, 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.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 28, 2026

Chandrakar used to also work as a "stringer" for news organisations, where his job involved providing outstation journalists with information about a story or sometimes, even chaperoning them through Maoist strongholds.

From BBC Jan. 8, 2025

One sent in a stringer to nose around The Coffee Pot Cafe for a human-interest story since it was August, a slow month for news.

From "A Long Way from Chicago" by Richard Peck

RFA laid off its stringers in Myanmar a day before a devastating March earthquake.

From Barron's Oct. 29, 2025

The Associated Press also has local Palestinian stringers, and my review of its hundreds of stories on the war this year revealed a total of two deeply reported pieces on Hamas—neither datelined from Gaza.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 15, 2025

But the reason they have three shutouts in lopsided victories is that the second stringers are performing as well as first stringers when coach Jon Ellinghouse clears the bench.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

He would loan lenses to stringers so they could learn their craft, teach colleagues how to use new technology and offer the benefit of his experience to newbies.

From Seattle Times Sep. 24, 2022

The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt




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