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adjective

ˌkȯr-ə-ˈspän-dənt How to pronounce correspondent (audio)
Definition of correspondentnext
as in similar
having qualities in common reading and writing are actually correspondent activities

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correspondent

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noun

as in reporter
a person employed by a newspaper, magazine, or radio or television station to gather, write, or report news a correspondent in the Middle East bureau just filed a new report on the coup

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Recent Examples of correspondent
Noun
McDonnell is a staff writer, Sánchez Vidal is a special correspondent. — Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026 Doyle Rice and Dinah Voyles Pulver are national correspondents for USA TODAY, with a focus on weather and climate. — Doyle Rice, USA Today, 21 Aug. 2026 Business correspondents Christine Romans and Brian Cheung shed light on the dilemma. — Yasmin Vossoughian, NBC news, 20 Aug. 2026 Ashley Gold is joining Semafor as senior technology correspondent, taking on a key role in coverage including AI and global politics. — Ted Johnson, Deadline, 20 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for correspondent
Recent Examples of Synonyms for correspondent
  1. similar
  2. reporter
  3. analogous
  4. journalist
  5. comparable
  6. alike
  7. such
  8. corresponding
Adjective
  • Side effects were similar to other vaccines that people typically get for other diseases, Healy noted.
    — Annika Kim Constantino, CNBC, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Both would likely keep Ukraine moving in a similar direction.
    — Nick Paton Walsh, CNN Money, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of similar
Noun
  • Maury Povich has lived many lives — radio news reporter, anchorman, talk show host, podcast entrepreneur, husband of Connie Chung.
    — Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 22 Aug. 2026
  • People hearing those stories—attorneys, reporters, healthcare workers or friends—may expect a clearer, linear narrative.
    — Michele Patterson Ford, Scientific American, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of reporter
Adjective
  • Astronomers are finding that in between the brightest stars, the 'tallest skyscrapers' in the above analogy, there are much fainter stars analogous to smaller buildings.
    — Robert Lea, Space.com, 20 Aug. 2026
  • War weariness on the rise Ukrainian experts say the logic of hitting largely consumer targets is in part retribution for analogous Russian attacks, and that disrupted supply chains affect the military as well.
    — Fred Weir, Christian Science Monitor, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of analogous
Noun
  • The deportees were clad in white, and many covered their faces out of safety as journalists filmed their arrival.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 21 Aug. 2026
  • Critics of the proposal pointed to the fact that Mexico is already one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists; nine were killed last year.
    — Jeronimo Gonzalez, semafor.com, 20 Aug. 2026
Definition of journalist
Adjective
  • Target is emerging from more than a year of weak or declining comparable sales.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Putting all those aspects together, the country most comparable to Russia, both historically and in the contemporary moment, is not Turkey or Iran but the United States.
    — Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of comparable
Adjective
  • America's most affluent suburbs are more alike than different.
    — Daniel de Visé, USA Today, 4 July 2026
  • According to author Caroline Hallemann—whose book The Kennedys and the Windsors came out on June 2—the two women were even more alike than meets the eye.
    — Rachel Burchfield, InStyle, 9 June 2026
Definition of alike
Adjective
  • Attorneys with Howard Cooper, Todd & Weld, the law firm representing Patrick Clancy, are calling statements like that patently false and defamatory, warning of the real-life consequences making such claims can have.
    — Rebekah Riess, CNN Money, 22 Aug. 2026
  • Bonta’s office, however, has argued that such behavioral remedies have proven impossible to enforce in the past.
    — Gene Maddaus, Variety, 22 Aug. 2026
Definition of such
Adjective
  • The researchers demonstrated the material in a data-glove system that detected hand movements and translated them into corresponding movements on a robotic model in real time.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 18 Aug. 2026
  • For Lilian Hsiao, co-corresponding author and NCSU associate professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering, her team’s breakthrough is more than welcome.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 17 Aug. 2026
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