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stringer

[string-er] / ˈstrɪŋ ər /


NOUN
foreign correspondent
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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

“Make it staff,” Faas said—meaning a member of AP, not a lowly stringer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Then it was back to collecting Djokovic's racquets and taking them to the stringer.

From BBC • Jan. 23, 2025

She moved to Jerusalem in 1966, at age 20, and lived there through two wars and one peace treaty, working as a journalist for The Jerusalem Post and as a stringer for Time magazine.

From New York Times • May 7, 2024

Though the Crepuscule was armed with but sixteen guns, the noise of their detonation was great, and as we labored to stand in the darkness, cannon blasts quaked the whole ship from strake to stringer.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson




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