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reportorial

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adjective

1.

of or pertaining to a reporter.

2.

of, noting, or characteristic of a report: His lecture was more reportorial than analytical.

Origin:
1855–60, Americanism; report(er) + -orial, by analogy with pairs such as tutor, tutorial

Related forms

rep·or·to·ri·al·ly, adverb

un·rep·or·to·ri·al, adjective

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reportorial (ˌrɛpɔːˈtɔːrɪəl)

—*adj*
	chiefly (US) of or relating to a newspaper reporter

[C20: from reporter, influenced by editorial]

repor'torially

—*adv*

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Reportorial is always a great word to know.

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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.

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Word Origin & History

reportorial

irregular formation, first recorded 1858, from reporter.

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Example sentences

We have no basis for concluding that this misidentification was anything other

than a reportorial error.

There is something objective, almost reportorial, in the way it presents its

story.

These debates over reportorial hunger would become a leitmotif of my

editorship, but only after the first six months.

Unfortunately, many stations are not where they need to be if they are going to

plug the reportorial gaps left by newspapers.

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"There is a reportorial quality in Hemingway's work that is absent from Fitzgerald's fiction. Hemingway's technique—in his early work, at least—was to let the observed detail convey emotion with no authorial analysis. Fitzgerald was more concerned with evoking and analyzing the feeling of an experience than with recording detail. As he advised his daughter, "But when in a freak moment you will want to give the low-down, not the scandal, not the merely reported but the profound essence of what happened at a prom or after it, perhaps that honesty will come to you—and then you will understand how it is possible to make even a forlorn Laplander feel the importance of a trip to Cartier's!""

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