"newsreaderess" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From newsreader + -ess. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|newsreader|ess}} newsreader + -ess Head templates: {{en-noun|!}} newsreaderess (plural not attested)
  1. A female newsreader. Tags: no-plural, rare Synonyms: newscastress Related terms: readeress

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          "ref": "1995 February 24, Arne Adolfsen, “Re: NBC airs Louganis story - poorly”, in soc.motss (Usenet), message-ID <3ilhue$73j@mizar.usc.edu>",
          "text": "In the space of about 3 minutes on one of those news-all-night shows -- I think it was the one on ABC -- they showed the head-meets-diving board clip 5 times. Once as the lead-in when they came back from commercials. Then as the perky newsreaderess read the news perkily. Then as she went to a reporter at another location. Then *he* ran the clip. Twice. That's totally unjustified.",
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          "text": "One has just raised oneself from one's steamy pit, on being informed by the newsreaderess that it was 7.08am . / Imagine my surprise when I looked at all the clocks in my mansion, to find that the time was *8.07am* - an hour later.",
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          "ref": "2009, Glenn Fowler, Christopher Smyth, Gareth Malone, Dear Editor...: The Collected Letters of Oscar Brittle, University of New South Wales Press, page 131",
          "text": "Dear Editor, / HOT! HOT! HOT! / I am referring, of course, to newsreaderess Sandra Sully.",
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          "ref": "2009 October 23, FrereTuck, “Re: How's that Gun Control Working Out for You?”, in talk.politics.guns (Usenet), message-ID <pan.2009.10.23.21.16.58@invalid.com>",
          "text": "> No police officers in the UK carry automatic weapons and the H&K MP5 / > variant they use has a special trigger group that prevents it being used / > as a full auto weapon. / '800 rounds a minute' though... (yeah if they invent a chuffin great belt fed water cooled version perhaps ) be afraid... be very afraid... (picture newsreaderess going weak at the knees at the thought) ;)",
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