reportorial
adjEtymology From report(er) + -orial.
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US Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a reporter.
- So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women.1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11:
- A master of simple, solid, apoetical, reportorial English.1988 November 4, Anthony Adler, “Hitting the Skids”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016:
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- Among the customers, a columnist for the local newspaper was having lunch and a beer or two, though he could not restrain his reportorial instincts.2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 28:
- These are very different kinds of books — Cade Metz’s is mainly reportorial, about how we got here; Kevin Roose’s is a casual-toned but carefully constructed set of guidelines about where individuals and societies should go next.2021 March 19, James Fallows, “Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- Derived terms
- reportorially