newspaper

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noun

news·pa·per ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər

ˈnyüz-,

ˈn(y)üs-

: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising

: an organization that publishes a newspaper

: the paper of a newspaper : newsprint

newspaper

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verb

newspapered; newspapering; newspapers

intransitive verb

: to do newspaper work

Example Sentences

Noun He used some newspaper to get the fire started. She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.

Recent Examples on the Web

Noun

The other studies in question were published in Science and Nature, according to the newspaper.

Andrew Joseph, STAT, 30 Nov. 2022 Yet, the best of the lot was the Shishu borrower, according to the newspaper which sourced its data through a Right to Information plea.

Quartz, 28 Nov. 2022 However, after noticing a billboard ad about organ donation in Times Square and reading a newspaper article on the subject, his interest was piqued.

Terry Baddoo, USA TODAY, 25 Nov. 2022 Bruni Tedeschi on Friday responded to the newspaper’s investigation, blaming the French media for failing to respect the presumption of innocence.

Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 25 Nov. 2022 The money that exchanged hands for the bid-rigging totaled 500 million yen ($3.6 million), involving nine companies and one organization, according to the newspaper Nihon Keizai Shimbun and other reports.

Yuri Kageyama, ajc, 25 Nov. 2022 Speaking to a German newspaper, the Qatari foreign minister, Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, said that some of the criticism was racist and arrogant.

Vivian Nereim, New York Times, 25 Nov. 2022 According to the newspaper, Musk brought son X Æ A-Xii, his first child with singer Grimes, to Twitter's offices while meeting with Trust and Safety Office Yoel Roth in October.

Natasha Dye, Peoplemag, 25 Nov. 2022 Five years ago, English real-estate developer Robin Swailes saw a newspaper article about a property claiming to be the smallest detached home in the London area.

Libertina Brandt, WSJ, 21 Nov. 2022

Verb

My friend David Carr, who died in 2015, had a line about newspapering that’s true of cooking as well.

Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020 What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.

P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019 This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.

Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018 Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.

Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014 This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.

Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018 Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.

Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014 The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.

Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017 See More

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