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

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

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

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

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