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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 started her career as a stringer for the Chicago Tribune, covering local government in the city’s northern suburbs during the 2009 recession.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2025

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

They were lying behind a wooden stringer in the lot before he even got near the door.

From "Cannery Row" by John Steinbeck

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

The Associated Press, one of several companies that does this type of real-time vote reporting, sends thousands of local stringers to county election offices on election night to call in raw vote count totals.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2022

St. John Bosco has so many defensive backs that the second stringers could start for any team.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022

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

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt


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