bulletin
Americannoun
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bulletins
plural
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a brief account or statement, as of news or events, issued for the information of the public.
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Journalism.
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a brief, prominently featured newspaper account, based upon information received just before the edition went to press.
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a similar brief account broadcast over radio or television pending further information.
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a pamphlet or monograph summarizing the past achievements, existing conditions, and future plans of a corporation, educational institution, government agency, etc., especially one cataloging the classes taught at a college or university.
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an official, special, or scholarly periodical, as of a learned society.
verb (used with object)
noun
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an official statement on a matter of public interest, such as the illness of a public figure
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a broadcast summary of the news
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a periodical publication of an association, etc
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bulletin
1645–55; < French, perhaps < Italian bullettino, equivalent to bullett ( a ) ( bulla bull 3 + -etta -ette ) + -ino -ine 2
Explanation
A brief news report or statement that's written or spoken is a bulletin. A TV reporter might read a bulletin announcing the winner of a presidential election, for example. You're most likely to hear a bulletin on the radio or television, usually in the form of a news update. A bulletin can also be a written or emailed report or newsletter that gives you brief information. A bulletin board is a message board that has such bulletins pinned to it. The root of bulletin is the Italian bulletta, "document" or "voting slip."
Vocabulary lists containing bulletin
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It was a ludicrous line-crossing in a sport that typically frowns on bulletin board material—and then the Bears backed it up with a Lombardi Trophy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Boeing will also send a bulletin to airlines detailing the issue and instructing employees how to recognize and respond to the situation should it take place.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
Earlier that morning, Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei published a flattering bulletin placing Schmitt atop the speculative short list to be Vice President JD Vance’s 2028 running mate, quoting admirers of the senator.
From Salon ● Oct. 1, 2026
Cliches were wielded like shields Tuesday, protecting against the imminent threat of social clips construed as bulletin board material.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
The UN Refugee Agency had sent out a bulletin about Mariam, and Habib’s professor and his sons were looking for any news of her in Jalalabad.
From "Shooting Kabul" by N. H. Senzai
"No-one expected to be waiting for medical bulletins again so soon -- certainly not with this particular pope, who was 69 at the time of the conclave" in which he was elected, he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
There is though some disquiet at ITN, which has made news bulletins for ITV ever since the channel launched in 1955.
From BBC ● Jul. 4, 2026
In a long thread posted on X Friday, designed to replicate the ten-point commodity bulletins he published at Goldman, Currie welcomed investors to “the most asymmetric trade in modern financial history.”
From MarketWatch ● May 15, 2026
The Department of Homeland Security hasn’t published any national terrorism advisory bulletins, periodic updates to alert the public to the current threat level, since September.
From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2026
They exploited understandable discrepancies between the bulletins and the individual in the courtroom—was there proof that this Benjamin Jones was the Benjamin Jones in question?
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
Several times each day the struggle between Death and Life was bulletined.
From Time Magazine Archive
Several U. S. correspondents present bulletined to their editors: The likeliest candidate for the Regency is Queen Marie.
From Time Magazine Archive
The doctors bulletined, "The situation is very grave."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fears that the King-Emperor was sinking redoubled when the Royal physicians* bulletined their "anxiety concerning the strength of the heart."
From Time Magazine Archive
On the floors below they sold grain and bulletined the price of tallow at "five and one-half cents for city"; but in the far-away tower the din of the wheat pit was not heard.
From Cupid's Middleman by Edward B. Lent
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