United Press International

American

noun

a business organization of newspapers in the U.S., together with representatives abroad, for the reporting and interchange of news. UPI, U.P.I.

Example Sentences

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The United Press International and Associated Press teletypes clattered away in a corner of the Columbus Citizen-Journal’s newsroom where I worked as a reporter in the 1970s.

From The Wall Street Journal

People trusted him because for much of his career he’d been a workaday reporter at United Press International.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We take on, headlong, all the things that you’re supposed to avoid. We fight the battles that we jointly feel we have to fight and we win some and we lose some,” Hirst told United Press International in 1988.

From Los Angeles Times

At one point, a reporter for United Press International spotted FBI agents at the Portland police station and asked a clerk what they were doing.

From Los Angeles Times

Dubbed the Mainichi Star Bowl after its sponsor, the Mainichi Daily News, the game was described as a “lackluster affair yet delighted the Japanese,” as about 38,000 fans filled Korakuen Stadium for a 20-10 Cardinals victory, according to United Press International.

From Los Angeles Times

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