adjective
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Etymology
Origin of reportorial
1855–60, report(er) + -orial, by analogy with pairs such as tutor, tutorial
Example Sentences
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Despite their insularity, Thompson’s works offer a reportorial curiosity of the world and a generosity toward working people.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 2, 2026
Garbus’ four-part docuseries exposes the family’s noxious dynamics to the klieg lights of public judgment, offering reportorial context to their expansive influence.
From Salon • Mar. 14, 2026
Villarosa won the $10,000 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize for a nonfiction work that exemplifies reportorial and literary excellence, and Cohen the $10,000 Mark Lynton History Prize for “intellectual distinction” and “felicity of expression.”
From Seattle Times • Mar. 21, 2023
People are complicated, as Shipton rightly pleads at one point, but a more spirited, vigorous defense might have helped lift “Ithaka” from its solemnly reportorial mood.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2023
The world is filled with English newspaper men who combine with reportorial training the power of treating a subject briefly and tellingly in its broadest relations.
From An American at Oxford by Corbin, John
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