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
This list is paltry in part because I sometimes believe I myself am so institutionalized that I experience the end of the Lemon test as the beginning and end of my reportorial beat.
From Slate ● May 22, 2023
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
This at once let loose upon them those vials of reportorial wrath which, up to that time, they had been fortunate in escaping.
From The New York Stock Exchange in the Crisis of 1914 by Henry George Stebbins Noble
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