All 11 Uses of
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Into Thin Air
- The dispatch had been filed from Everest via a coded radio message (to prevent competitors from scooping the Times) by a young correspondent named James Morris who, twenty years later, having earned considerable esteem as a writer, would famously change his gender to female and his Christian name to Jan.
Chpt 2 (definition 1)correspondent = reporter
- Over the past half decade, the traffic on all of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied at an astonishing rate. And to meet the demand, the number of commercial enterprises peddling guided ascents of the Seven Summits, especially Everest, has multiplied correspondingly.
Chpt 3 (definition 2) *correspondingly = proportionately
- In addition to corresponding with the new woman in his life, Doug filled his hours at Base Camp by writing countless postcards to the students of Sunrise Elementary School, a public institution in Kent, Washington, that had sold T-shirts to help fund his climb.
Chpt 6 (definition 3)corresponding = writing or exchanging written letters or emails
- At least five Internet sites were posting dispatches from correspondents at Everest Base Camp.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)correspondents = reporters
- Instead, correspondents filed their reports by voice or fax via satellite phone, and those reports were typed into computers for dissemination on the Web by editors in New York, Boston, and Seattle.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Scott Fischer's expedition had no less than two correspondents filing online dispatches for a pair of competing websites.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Jane Bromet, who phoned in daily reports for Outside Online, was one of the correspondents on Fischer's team, but she wasn't a client and didn't have permission to climb higher than Base Camp.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- The other Internet correspondent on Fischer's expedition, however, was a client who intended to go all the way to the summit and file daily dispatches for NBC Interactive Media enroute.
Chpt 8 (definition 1) *correspondent = reporter
- She was back on Everest in 1994 after raising more than a quarter of a million dollars from corporate sponsors to secure the talents of Several magazines and newspapers have erroneously reported that I was a correspondent for Outside Online.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- But Outside magazine and Outside Online are autonomous to such a degree that I didn't even know Outside Online had sent a correspondent to Everest until I arrived at Base Camp, four of the finest alpinists in North America: Breashears (who was under contract to film the expedition for NBC television), Steve Swenson, Barry Blanchard, and Alex Lowe.
Chpt 8 (definition 1)
- Much of the correspondence offered support and sympathy for those of us who had returned, but there was also an abundance of scathingly critical letters.
Chpt Epil. (definition 3) *correspondence = written letters
Definitions:
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(1) (correspondent as in: foreign correspondent of the paper) a reporter -- typically from a foreign country or with a particular expertise
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(2) (correspond as in: corresponding time period) connect or fit together by being equivalent, proportionate, or matched
(Two things are equivalent if they have the same or very similar value, purpose, or result.)
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(3) (correspond as in: corresponding by email) communicate -- typically by writing letters or emaileditor's notes: A corresponding secretary is an officer of an organization who is responsible for managing the organization's correspondence and keeping a record of it.