How to Use press corps in a Sentence

press corps

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  • In the last two decades, the size of the Capitol press corps has shrunk — and at the Times bureau — by two-thirds.
    — George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 20 May 2024
  • Biden is scheduled to take questions from the White House press corps Thursday.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, Baltimore Sun, 11 July 2024
  • Surely, the Chronicle and its peers may cover Musk more closely than the Austin press corps.
    — Scott Nover, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The Capitol press corps searched for Johnson all day long Tuesday with more energy than ten lords a ’leaping to no avail.
    — Chad Pergram, Fox News, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The political press corps gets very excited about the Des Moines Register poll.
    — Byron York, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2024
  • Fall agreed and helpfully alerted the entire Washington press corps.
    — Rebecca Boggs Roberts, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The assembly and disassembly of an ad hoc press corps before and after each event served two purposes.
    — Kyle Paoletta, Harper's Magazine, 30 Mar. 2024
  • Typically, state visits include a news conference in which the leaders take questions from two members of the U.S. press and two from the visiting press corps.
    — Aamer Madhani, The Christian Science Monitor, 22 June 2023
  • Unfortunately, 20 years on, there is little evidence that the Washington press corps has learned this lesson.
    — John Walcott, Foreign Affairs, 19 Mar. 2023
  • Gavin Newsom was in his element, hand-feeding dishy commentary to an eager political press corps.
    — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2023
  • One is to examine its nuts and bolts and assess DeSantis’ ability at retail campaigning; that’s the method of the political press corps, which prefers horse-race coverage to writing about things as dull as policies.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • While the president has regularly engaged in gaggles with the White House press corps, such forums don’t naturally lend themselves to the type of aggressive questioning that might come in a sit-down interview.
    — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 6 Feb. 2024
  • And, amid a crackdown on free speech, the foreign press corps representation is less robust, save for journalists from nations friendly to Russia, including China.
    — Javier C. Hernández, New York Times, 29 June 2023
  • On a trip to Pakistan, Dr. Kissinger evaded the traveling press corps by feigning illness and flew secretly to Beijing to secure the presidential invitation, which astonished the world when it was announced.
    — Thomas W. Lippman, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2023
  • The campaign also exposed the vacuum in our political press corps, which tried valiantly to prop up the Florida governor as a doughty maverick who shouldn’t be underestimated.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 22 Jan. 2024
  • That could be an unbiased and competent press corps, principled statesmen or credible legal professionals who speak up and transcend partisan politics and personal agendas.
    — Andrew Cuomo, New York Daily News, 12 Feb. 2024

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