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
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
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
The keepers he put on a stringer, a woven cord with a three-inch nail tied to its end, anchored with a rock on the riverside.
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
The division has 22 full-time employees and approximately 60 contract workers and stringers.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023
AP now uses a network of thousands of stringers and vote center clerks who take feeds, scrape official state websites for data and electronically add up votes across the country.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 28, 2022
The honeysuckle vines emerged in long stringers, unwoven from the mass.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
