anchorette

(ˌæŋkəˈrɛt)

(Broadcasting) informal (in broadcasting) a young and inexperienced anchorwoman

[C20: from anchor (sense 5b) + -ette (sense 2)]

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And bench bronze-standard daytime TV, beginning with those morning talk shows on which anchors and anchorettes, by turns chirpy and grave, get to say, "Up next, starvation in Africa and the run-down on new running shoes"; or (a kind of signature moment for the Katies and Dianes), "I know this must be a difficult time for you, Mrs.

My favorite wasteland: the case against TV used to be a slam-dunk: guilty as charged by reason of inanity. The inanity still abounds--it wouldn't be TV otherwise--but so do a lot of other qualities that often make the couch in the den a fitter habitation for an adult than the stadium seat in a multiplex

For it was apparent that, just as there was no one left with a word to say in public on the subject who was not either pro- or anti-Clinton, so it was that there was no one left who was not either pro-Miami or pro-Havana as the future residence of poor Elian, whose name as pronounced by the news anchors and anchorettes sounded so pathetically like "alien."

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