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
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
Video from the stringer service OnScene.TV shows a stalled pickup truck on the shoulder of the freeway with a gaping hole in the windshield.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2025
As a high school junior, he signed on as a stringer, feeding varsity wrestling and hockey results to the paper’s sports department.
From New York Times ● Jan. 12, 2024
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
How the tally is counted includes tons of preparation, journalists in all 50 states and a network of roughly 4,000 stringers, or temporary freelancers.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 3, 2022
The builders of dams and stringers of wires never forget their feats of engineering.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2022
The Preacher said, “True, if you figure a tenth by numbers, but I was thinking of figuring a tenth by age. Let me hold on to both of those stringers for a minute.”
From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis
