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“Correspondence” or “Correspondents”

correspondence / correspondents are similar-sounding terms with different meanings (referred to as homophones). To better understand the differences, see below for definitions, pronunciation guides, and example sentences using each term.

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Definitions

What each term means

Same sound, different spellings and meanings, shown with a pronunciation guide for each term.

correspondence k·AO·r·ah·s·p·AA·n·d·ah·n·s

  • nouncommunication by the exchange of letters.

correspondents k·AO·r·ah·s·p·AA·n·d·ah·n·t·s

  • nounsomeone who communicates by means of letters.
  • nouna journalist employed to provide news stories for newspapers or broadcast media.
Usage

Examples in context

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“correspondence”

  • …same year, Freud began a correspondence with Carl Gustav Jung who…
  • The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor…
  • They maintained an extensive correspondence from which Freud drew on…
  • The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Ernest…
  • …brother, he maintained an extensive correspondence with leading Christian scholars of…
  • …to delicately intimate in his correspondence to Fliess the nature of…
  • …of developments through a regular correspondence with his principal followers and…
  • …the subject of an extensive correspondence between Freud and Jung.
  • The Complete Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Karl…
  • The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor…

“correspondents”

  • Category:Canadian television reporters and correspondents
  • Correspondents
  • Category:Canadian newspaper reporters and correspondents
  • All correspondents and papers will be held…
  • …to any of their frequent correspondents.
  • …then-unfinished first feature film Foreign Correspondents.
  • …New York Times and its correspondents made extensive references to the…
  • Category:Australian reporters and correspondents
  • …Gallery: Congress and the Washington Correspondents won him the Richard W.…
  • …notes of the Nevas navigator, correspondents between Kalinin and Rumyantsev, Rezanov,…

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