newsletter
Americannoun
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newsletters
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a written report, issued periodically, typically by a business, institution, or other organization, that presents information and news to people with a specific interest in the organization or subject.
our co-op’s monthly newsletter;
an employee newsletter.
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a written report and analysis of the news, often providing forecasts, typically directed at a special audience, as businesspeople, and distributed to subscribers.
a stock-market newsletter.
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Also called: news-sheet. a printed periodical bulletin circulated to members of a group
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history a written or printed account of the news
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newsletter
Explanation
A newsletter is a regular, periodic publication that provides information to a specific group of people. You might subscribe to a newsletter that gives you shopping tips, or one that features information about caring for your pet ferret. Belonging to a club or a church sometimes includes receiving monthly newsletters full of news and upcoming events. Schools often send newsletters home to students' parents, so they know what's happening during the semester. Many newsletters are printed on paper and sent through the mail, while others are distributed via email. The term newsletter was common in the seventeenth century, but it fell out of favor for many years until a revival in the twentieth century.
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Tell me what you think: Send me your feedback and suggestions at [email protected] or reply to any newsletter.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
"Angel specializes in inspirational stories and they know how to reach this audience," Gross wrote in his weekly newsletter.
From Barron's ● Nov. 8, 2026
Guests: Jim Newell, Slate’s senior politics writer and author of The Surge newsletter.
From Slate ● Nov. 5, 2026
Sign up to Anthony Zurcher's Politics Unspun newsletter for comprehensive analysis of all the results.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
I know what that thing is, it’s the newsletter from the Ladies League, and from the looks of it she found it in the parking lot of that ladies’ club.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
In a tab labeled “Manage subscriptions” in the left rail of the Gmail interface, there’s a list of all the promotional emails and newsletters that regularly make their way into your inbox.
From Slate ● Nov. 3, 2026
Ideas can come from anywhere: industry newsletters, TikTok, Reddit, other toy companies and customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The last step was drizzling a tablespoon of good olive oil over the batter which was a trick I had learned in one of the myriad baking newsletters I now subscribed to.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
On the assumption that the non-surviving portfolios were behind the market when they went out of existence, the Vanguard 500 Index fund’s performance rank among the newsletters is at the 92nd percentile.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 8, 2026
I was still living in Chicago when I began to receive creepy Christmas newsletters designed to look like tabloids and annual reports.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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