press box

noun

: a space reserved for reporters (as at a stadium)

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The four words were first spoken here on a bright spring afternoon at Camelback Ranch, my astonished syllables joining similar tones of amazement floating from every corner of a crowded press box. Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 22 Nov. 2024 Have Ipswich made any other changes? Aside from designing a new TV gantry to sit above the directors’ box, the club have also built a new press box. Dan Sheldon, The Athletic, 13 Aug. 2024 The proposition would expand a press box and create multiuse space for athletics and career and technology programs. Keri Heath, Austin American-Statesman, 20 Feb. 2024 No writer in the Folsom press box had seen anybody make a catch like that in the end zone in front of Hunter before. Sean Keeler, The Denver Post, 18 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for press box 

Word History

First Known Use

1889, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of press box was in 1889

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“Press box.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20box. Accessed 28 Nov. 2024.

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