center spread
Americannoun
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the pair of pages facing each other at the center of a magazine or newspaper, printed and made up as a single unit.
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matter occupying this space.
Example Sentences
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The interior center spread shows Dewey pointing to a chalkboard to highlight his branching-tree schematic of the history of rock.
From Washington Times • Sep. 23, 2023
The inside center spread reveals an astronaut inspecting the large, gravity drive orb.
From Washington Times • Oct. 26, 2022
The next day the Daily Mail featured the exploit in its center spread, under a seven-column headline that read: “Keep calm, England! The damned Yankees are invading.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2016
The two-page center spread is a cartoon account of Sunday’s march, when more than a million people were on Paris’s streets.
From Time • Jan. 14, 2015
They had the magazine open to a center spread of Fabian onstage singing before an audience of mostly girls.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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