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REPORTER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A person who investigates and reports or edits news stories
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("reporter" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reporter"):
newswoman (a female newsperson)
television newscaster; television reporter; TV newsman; TV reporter (someone who reports news stories via television)
Derivation:
report (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)
Context examples:
Includes SSCP, DNA sequencing, hybridization, and reporter gene expression.
(Mutation Detection, NCI Thesaurus)
The difficulty is to detach the framework of fact—of absolute undeniable fact—from the embellishments of theorists and reporters.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Any adverse event that places the patient, in the view of the initial reporter, at immediate risk of death from the adverse event as it occurred, i.e., it does not include an adverse experience that, had it occurred in a more severe form, might have caused death.
(Life Threatening or Disabling Adverse Event, NCI Thesaurus)
Such molecules could include tumor-targeting agents (including but not restricted to monoclonal antibodies), imaging contrast agents to pinpoint tumors, drug molecules for delivery to a tumor, and reporter molecules that might detect if an anticancer drug is working.
(Dendrimer, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
He was not a bright cub reporter.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I am the reporter of the Daily Gazette.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These would map replicate features for a reporter to the reporter.
(Feature Reporter Map, NCI Thesaurus)
Most, though not all, nanoparticles are hollow, which provides a central reservoir that can be filled with anticancer drugs, detection agents, or chemicals, known as reporters, that can signal if a drug is having a therapeutic effect.
(Nanoparticle, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Why not become a reporter? —for a while, at least?
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Got so touchy that he assaults anyone who asks questions, and heaves reporters down the stairs.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
