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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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Guardian back page - 'Champions rocked as Rodri may miss rest of season'

From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2024

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

From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2023

Tucked away on the back page were the words “the player’s ... integrity, sportsmanship, character, and contributions,” as some of the attributes for the voters to keep in mind during their decision making.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2022

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

But such things have become mostly back-page stories.

From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2026

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

Even Al Jaffee’s ingenious back-page “fold-in” cartoons revealed dark truths masked within otherwise banal scenes.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 5, 2019

We fear the gifted Spaniard has acquired an idea of American domestic life from Mr. Tom Powers’ sketches and other back-page comics.

From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston