front-page
adjective
of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
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front pagenounthe first and most visible page of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; front matter.
front-page
1 American
[fruhnt-payj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
adjective
verb (used with object)
front-paged,
front-paging
front page
2
American
[fruhnt-payj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
noun
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front pages
plural
front-page
British
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of front-page
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
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In the last 24 hours, front-page walkbacks of the AI extinction meme have appeared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Europe and South America picked up the front-page story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
When revealing his diagnosis to the world, he said it reminded him of his decision to publicly come out as gay in 2013 in a front-page cover story for Sports Illustrated.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
The Washington Post mentioned it in the 36th and final paragraph of its front-page story on McVeigh’s arrest.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
American newspapers barely took notice: A story about a weather plane gone missing hardly qualified as front-page news.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
Shares in the company nicknamed “the front page of the internet” tumbled 25% to $96.85, with the decline at 44% since the start of the year.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
I play a game with my morning newspaper to see how many crises make it onto the front page every day.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
The Prince of Wales faces off the Duke of Sussex on the front page of the Daily Mirror above the headline "Ruled Out".
From BBC ● Oct. 22, 2026
The Prince of Wales is pictured back-to-back with his brother, the Duke of Sussex, on the front page of the Sun.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
There was a great column, all down the front page, and an awful blurred photograph of Maxim that must have been taken at least fifteen years ago.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
That Sunday, the Times front-paged a further downsizing from the vocabulary of evil, psychologizing the murderous Chechen bros with what seemed like existentialist anxiety, by speculating that “signs of alienation” may explain the crime.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2013
Last spring, from Hong Kong, he ostensibly entered the People's Republic and produced a five-part series that the paper front-paged.
From Time Magazine Archive
Excited students read of it in their Chicago Maroon which front-paged a large picture of President Hutchins.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Boston Roman Catholic newspaper The Pilot recently front-paged a photograph of Ford bathed in a halo of light and ran two accompanying articles emphasizing his "cordial" relations with church leaders.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they front-paged what I felt about Northern white and black Freedom Riders going South to “demonstrate.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Two exceptions were the Washington Star-News and the Louisville Courier-Journal, which managed to cut through the intricacies by front-paging capsule highlights of Nixon's statement in addition to giving more detailed stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
See the one shrivel who goes around front-paging his age.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Ralph Parlette
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