stringer

Example Sentences

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 27, 2025

Quillin, meanwhile, is a stringer for news services and often goes to the scenes of breaking news to record video.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 10, 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 findings by the Pentagon's inspector general said US officials in Washington DC and Europe had failed to properly account for thousands of weapons, including stringer launchers and air defence missiles.

From BBC • Jan. 11, 2024

I loaded all my fishing tools up, threw the stringer of fish over Old Flap’s rump, and started riding back to the stable.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis