on-the-scene
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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What cemented his place there was half happenstance: his no-nonsense, on-the-scene reportage of the 1996 bombing at the Atlanta Olympics, which occurred while he was filling in at “SportsCenter.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
Kathy died, but live, on-the-scene TV news was, in essence, born.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2024
This presented advantages for the parties: They saved a lot of money on overhead, they muted intra-convention dissent, they shut out the press from writing any embarrassing, on-the-scene stories that would distract from the message.
From Slate ● Aug. 29, 2020
Along with Jimmy Breslin, he popularized a spare, blunt style in columns of on-the-scene reporting in the authentic voice of the working classes: blustery, sardonic, often angry.
From New York Times ● Aug. 5, 2020
Throughout the week he appears regularly on Channel 2's 6 o'clock news as an on-the-scene reporter, and each Saturday and Sunday he co-anchors both the 6 o'clock and the 11 o'clock evening news.
From 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s by Millard, Max
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