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
"A failure right across the board", wrote the broadsheet Tagesanzeiger.
From BBC ● Jan. 10, 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
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
Elsewhere, broadsheets have marvelled at the platform's business model and impact on the digital landscape.
From BBC ● May 26, 2021
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
For Evans it wasn’t enough to print a story on the front page of his paper, one of the most respected broadsheets in the western world.
From Reuters ● Sep. 24, 2020
The generic trappings of such a museum are all there: decrepit typewriters, linotype parts, old broadsheets with toasted edges hollering the death of Stalin or the fall of the Berlin Wall.
From New York Times ● May 9, 2018
There is a general notion that the Harleian Miscellany and the Somers Tracts represent between them a very large proportion of the extant pamphlets and broadsheets published during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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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