byline
Americannoun
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bylines
plural
verb (used with object)
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Pep's thinking at this point was to deploy traditional wingers – Doku and Savinho, who could get to the byline with Foden and Reijnders expected to arrive into the box to help Haaland score goals.
From BBC ● Apr. 25, 2026
Here, it is a man whose labor disappears behind a woman’s byline, a sly inversion of the far more familiar historical pattern.
From Salon ● Dec. 25, 2025
The news agency made sure not to give any clue as to its sources: the article didn’t carry a byline or a dateline.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 26, 2025
The section’s sole byline, from a Chicago writer named Marco Buscaglia, appears on nearly a dozen articles.
From Slate ● May 21, 2025
Though the piece carried no byline, the style was Owen’s and no one in the world of the natural sciences doubted the authorship.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
But after years of fighting for my own bylines, my ambition now was to help my students thrive, make a living and not repeat my mistakes.
From Salon ● Aug. 24, 2026
Now, he typically takes sole bylines because he feels the work is mostly his own.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026
It was heartbreaking to see bylines without reporters like Yeganeh Torbati.
From Slate ● Mar. 3, 2026
I’ve been doing daily art journalism for 45 years — 36 of them at The Times, with 2,195 bylines — so I’m about to find out whether this quitting will also be hellish.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2025
And just when we got used to seeing their bylines, off to the Gulf the Goenkars went.
From Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press by Various
Munson, herself an artists’ model, was neither happy nor prosperous toward the end of her career, when she expressed that lament in a bylined article syndicated by the Hearst newspapers.
From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2022
In the weeks before the election, German bylined reports about an office “mired in turmoil and internal dissension” between longtime employees and new hires under Telles’ leadership.
From Washington Times ● Sep. 7, 2022
Several of Targeted Victory’s op-eds contained links to negative news coverage about TikTok and were often bylined by influential community figures and politicians, including Democrats.
From The Verge ● Mar. 30, 2022
These appear in the Times opinion section, opposite the page where bylined opinion columns run.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022
The article in the Marquette Law Journal was jointly bylined with John Garvey, then a Notre Dame law professor and now president of Catholic University in Washington, D.C.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 1, 2020
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