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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

Whether it is providing detailed insight about an Australian Open opponent or carrying his racquets to the stringer, Andy Murray has got Novak Djokovic's back.

From BBC ● Jan. 23, 2025

Video from the stringer service OC Hawk showed a bearded man sitting in the stopped self-driving vehicle, poking his head out and speaking to police.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2025

He pulled his stringer from his pocket and strung the fish on it.

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

But the reason they have three shutouts in lopsided victories is that the second stringers are performing as well as first stringers when coach Jon Ellinghouse clears the bench.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2025

The division has 22 full-time employees and approximately 60 contract workers and stringers.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 24, 2023

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

From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt


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