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• back page
  back page

  noun

  the last or last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; back matter.
• back-page
  back-page

  adjective

  relating to or occurring on the last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, and thus not especially important.

back page

¹ American  

[bak payj] / ˈbæk ˈpeɪdʒ /

noun

1. the last or last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; back matter.

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back-page ² American  

[bak payj] / ˈbæk ˈpeɪdʒ /

adjective

1. relating to or occurring on the last few pages of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication, and thus not especially important.

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I had secured my story through sources, not from him direct, so to hear him on the phone was a relief as that back page was now whirling around a press.

From BBC ● Apr. 6, 2026

It looked hinky, and on the back page, in fine print, I learned that the mail was from a lender unaffiliated with my mortgage company.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 23, 2024

On the back page, I found the Prayer of St. Francis:

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023

The Chicago Tribune ran a photograph on its back page the next day of Ed; his wife, Stella; their children; and more than 30 of their neighbors against a blanket of Old Glories.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 1, 2021

The writer Christopher Buckley used Pittman’s high-altitude tribulations as the punchline of a joke on the back page of The New Yorker.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Eileen credits the Sheffield Star and Sheffield Telegraph newspapers for her big break into the industry, securing her first back-page lead with a photo of a city gymnast in late 1970s.

From BBC ● May 18, 2025

Los Angeles magazine is another good resource, particularly Chris Nichols’ back-page Ask Chris feature, which almost always serves up something about the city’s past that I never knew before.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2023

Another surprise is how Bradbury got into comics, which is told in a back-page essay.

From New York Times ● Oct. 24, 2022

For many years, Campbell appeared each week in the Times Literary Supplement, where his back-page essay — ironic, bookish and irresistibly entertaining — was every subscriber’s favorite feature.

From Washington Post ● May 18, 2022

Morning after morning, from the back-page of your newspaper, quick and uncostly cures for every human ill thrust themselves wildly on you.

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir