broadsheet
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broadsheets
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Chiefly British. a newspaper printed on large paper, usually a respectable newspaper rather than a tabloid.
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Most hand-printed weeklies were four pages long—the size of a broadsheet, folded once—a daunting amount of space for small-town editors to fill.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
It has been well documented that reporters at that reputable broadsheet newspaper relied on fraudulently obtained material for articles up through the early 2000s.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2024
The Daily Telegraph, the British daily broadsheet newspaper that normally writes in support of the royal family, later published the front page story, “Photo from Palace was doctored, say agencies.”
From Salon ● Mar. 11, 2024
An oversight board voted Monday to close the Winsted Citizen, a broadsheet that served Nader’s hometown and surrounding area in the northwestern hills of the state since February.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
The next time Valentine went east on business, a broadsheet promoting an antislavery meeting stopped him in his tracks.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
"Do we see broadsheets reviewing romance books? No. And they are just as important, literary books."
From BBC ● Jun. 20, 2025
Tolerance of different arrangements may have grown, but most of the census’s physical pageantry — the maps, the machines, the broadsheets covered in handwriting, the bound leather books, all illustrated here — is eroded forever.
From New York Times ● Aug. 28, 2022
So Pen—get it, “pen”?—would not have had the money to just stroll into the ton printer and order up a significant number of broadsheets.
From Slate ● Jan. 15, 2021
But today, with niche publications having proliferated online and newspapers having closed Washington bureaus or gone out of business, specialty reporters actually outnumber those working for daily broadsheets, according to the Pew Research Center.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 23, 2019
Books, and more especially pamphlets and broadsheets, were acquired, and, after perusal, flung away.
From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by William Carew Hazlitt
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