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correspondent

[kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr- /


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The BBC's correspondent Adina Campbell reports live from the Place de la République in Paris.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

Chief political correspondent Josh Dawsey went back to his alma mater, the University of South Carolina, where the campus is booming but many students he spoke with are uneasy about their own economic futures.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

She previously worked as a Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star and an investigative reporter for the Star and McClatchy newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026

Veteran BBC war correspondent Lyse Doucet was the president of the Bayeux awards jury.

From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026

Harry had received no mail since the start of term; his only regular correspondent was now dead and although he had hoped that Lupin might write occasionally, he had so far been disappointed.

From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling

AFP correspondents heard loud explosions in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday evening, while the internationally recognised government's military said it had carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa, Saada and Taiz.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

The Moscow Times, a small, independent English-language paper founded in Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union, had become a training ground for a generation of foreign correspondents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

The BBC's correspondents who covered the address have picked five key moments that stood out.

From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2026

Without access to the grounds, affected journalists also lose their regular workspace and access to areas such as Reporters’ Lane, where television correspondents frequently deliver live reports from the White House complex.

From Salon ● Sep. 19, 2026

One of the correspondents had left a New York Times behind and I went through it.

From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers


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