foreign correspondent

noun

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Recent Examples of foreign correspondent Copyright © 2026 by Lynda Schuster Lynda Schuster is a former Wall Street Journal foreign correspondent who worked in Central and South America, the Middle East and Africa. — Literary Hub, 16 June 2026 Trey Yingst, the Fox News foreign correspondent, offers dispatches via TikTok. — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 19 May 2026 How does that experience—writing without a byline as a sort of anonymous commenter—compare to your other work as a foreign correspondent writing from India, Afghanistan, Egypt, and Iran? — Daniel Drake, The New York Review of Books, 16 May 2026 In either late May or early June, Patricia Lochridge, an American journalist who was a foreign correspondent in Germany during the war, was made mayor for the day of Berchtesgaden, near the Austrian border where Hitler owned a mountain retreat. — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 11 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for foreign correspondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for foreign correspondent
  1. correspondent
  2. reporter
  3. journalist
  4. interviewer
  5. newsman
  6. newsperson
  7. stringer
Noun
  • Nigeria left the Financial Action Task Force grey list in October 2025, which has helped its standing with correspondent banks, though neither that nor the FTSE decision commits a single foreign allocator to buying anything.
    — Dara-Abasi Ita, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Special correspondent Cecilia Sánchez Vidal in Mexico City contributed.
    — Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of correspondent
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  • The referendum campaign has fueled debate about Iceland’s place in the world, Prime Minister Kristrun Frostadottir told reporters after casting her ballot in ​the capital on Saturday.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 30 Aug. 2026
  • Canales told reporters postgame that Evans’ absence was related to a neck injury.
    — Alex Zietlow, Charlotte Observer, 29 Aug. 2026
Definition of reporter
Noun
  • Responding to journalists' questions, Macron urged the United States not to hoard cutting-edge AI technologies for itself and stressed that countries must engage in global cooperation on AI regulation.
    — , CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
  • One of them was this Torcal prototype, which was being used to shuttle journalists (your author included) around to give them a taste of the company’s first electric SUV.
    — Byron Hurd, The Drive, 27 Aug. 2026
Definition of journalist
Noun
  • Patterns that appear across multiple interviewers and reference conversations are far more reliable signals.
    — Harvard Business Review, Harvard Business Review, 24 Aug. 2026
  • Other Albanians had warned me—the interviewers ask you where things are, which city, which river.
    — Ledio Cakaj, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of interviewer
Noun
  • Once, when his unit came under heavy fire, a soldier running for cover caught a glimpse of Salinger hunched under a table, clacking away like a frenzied newsman on deadline.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 Aug. 2026
  • Candidates like actress Mayim Bialik, newsman Anderson Cooper, and Reading Rainbow star LeVar Burton.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 13 July 2026
Definition of newsman
Noun
  • This is an office only a newsperson could love.
    — Zach Helfand, New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2025
  • The iconic newsperson died Friday evening her representative Cindi Berger tells PEOPLE.
    — Stephen M. Silverman, Peoplemag, 30 Dec. 2022
Definition of newsperson
Noun
  • Jacob Rizy, a center from Staples, is taking on a larger role with the Patriots ahead of the season after second-stringer Ben Brown went down in the preseason opener.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 23 Aug. 2026
  • Patriots third-stringer Behren Morton responded by leading a 73-yard drive, capped by a 37-yard TD pass to Nick DeGennaro.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 23 Aug. 2026
Definition of stringer

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“Foreign correspondent.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/foreign%20correspondent. Accessed 1 Sep. 2026.

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