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 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
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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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