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View synonyms for newswire

newswire

[ nooz-wahyuhr, nyooz- ]

noun

  1. a service transmitted especially by teletypewriter and providing late-breaking news news stories, stock-market results, or other up-to-the-minute information:

    We took the story off the newswires.

  2. a teletypewriter or other machine by which such information is transmitted or received.


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Word History and Origins

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Example Sentences

This is exactly what Newswire was built on – distributing well-written press releases to authoritative media outlets.

A search on Lexis Nexis, which collates media mentions, reveals 5,493 uses of the term in newspapers, newswires, press releases, and blogs since it first came into being.

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A person claiming to be a TRN employee published a release on PR Newswire under the pseudonym ‘Mary Donovan’.

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