stringer
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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
“Make it staff,” Faas said—meaning a member of AP, not a lowly stringer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 27, 2025
Dominoes fall quickly and hard for 33-year-old budding reporter Sara Byrne, assigned as a freelance stringer by the fictional London Tribune to cover the 2012 Gaza War.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
Then it was back to collecting Djokovic's racquets and taking them to the stringer.
From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025
He pulled the largest fish off the stringer and held it in one hand with its white belly facing up.
From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe
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
A handful of news organizations had maintained a regular presence with bureaus there, including The Associated Press, the BBC, Reuters, Agence France-Presse and Al-Jazeera, with a network of stringers helping others.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 19, 2023
The Preacher pulled the biggest two bass and the biggest perch off the stringers and said, “This perch is ten years old, and these bass are one year old each. How many years is that?”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
