by-line
Britishnoun
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journalism a line under the title of a newspaper or magazine article giving the author's name
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soccer another word for touchline
Vocabulary lists containing by-line
Example Sentences
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But Newcastle retook the lead five minutes before the end of an entertaining first half as Jacob Murphy stooped to head home after Matt Ritchie’s cross from the by-line had just evaded the leaping Wilson.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 15, 2021
So embarrassed was Lieberman by much of what he was writing that he refused to put his real name on the by-line.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2018
That came when Matic slipped out on the right by-line and dragged down Diafra Sakho.
From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2015
Ryan Taylor fizzed a free-kick just wide and, when Moussa Sissoko muscled his way to the by-line and cut a centre across the six-yard box, Green was forced to dive in amongst bodies to claim.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2015
Stopping for coffee and two burritos with green chili in a cafe near the central plaza, he leafed swiftly through all twenty magazines, marking the stories that carried a Charley Bloom by-line.
From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols
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