Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Being at the site of an action or event.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Being or occurring at the place or time in question.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective at the scene of action
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Examples
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It has largely replaced the work of on-the-scene reporters during political campaigns, which have become, in a sense, perpetual.
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Sen. Richard G. Lugar R-Ind. said in a statement, "In his thoughtful and probing questions based on decades of scholarship and on-the-scene observations, David Broder set the modern 'gold standard' for those of us engaged in political life as we sought to persuade others, to legislate and to administer the successful progress of our country."
David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism 2011
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Sen. Richard G. Lugar R-Ind. said in a statement, "In his thoughtful and probing questions based on decades of scholarship and on-the-scene observations, David Broder set the modern 'gold standard' for those of us engaged in political life as we sought to persuade others, to legislate and to administer the successful progress of our country."
David Broder, 81, dies; set 'gold standard' for political journalism 2011
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It has largely replaced the work of on-the-scene reporters during political campaigns, which have become, in a sense, perpetual.
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It has largely replaced the work of on-the-scene reporters during political campaigns, which have become, in a sense, perpetual.
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Five years after its founding and nearly three years after it became a surprise source of on-the-scene information following the earthquake in Sichuan, Twitter is a go-to place in times of disaster.
Quake Produces Flood of Tweets Andrew Joyce 2011
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Scott Glenn (the bad guy from “Urban Cowboy”) turns in a very believable performance as an on-the-scene reporter who eventually finds himself on the deck of the USS Nimitz.
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By the middle of the following century, on-the-scene data from Epsilon Eridani, the nearest known planetary system, could be in our hands.
Telepresence and Micro-bots for Exploration? - NASA Watch 2009
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So, then, I would have to conclude that The Wasilla Shopper has had a reporter on-the-scene in Baghdad for the past decade.
Think Progress » Heilemann: Palin ‘regularly’ said that ‘that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11.’ 2010
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They know he's no whiner, and they know he and leaders like him — on-the-scene commanders who connect with and care about the soldiers — are vital to the effort.
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