stringer
Example Sentences
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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
Dominoes fall quickly and hard for 33-year-old budding reporter Sara Byrne, assigned as a freelance stringer by the fictional London Tribune to cover the 2012 Gaza War.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 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
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
Besides working at the foundry, he was a young stringer for the Atlanta Constitution Tri-Weekly.
From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
