Hearst
Americannoun
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William Randolph, 1863–1951, U.S. editor and publisher.
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his son William Randolph, Jr., 1908–1993, U.S. publisher and editor.
noun
Example Sentences
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What’s happened in tech media the past few years has been an inversion of that old principle often attributed to William Randolph Hearst.
From Slate • Apr. 7, 2026
Microsoft recently launched a pilot with eight publishers, including People, the Associated Press and Hearst.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026
Funding for the project was provided by Margaret and Will Hearst and the University of Chicago.
From Science Daily • Jan. 23, 2026
After all, he was fighting the combined power of the Tammany Hall political machine and newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, who united behind John Francis Hylan, a vaguely populist Brooklyn Democrat with few discernible positions.
From Salon • Oct. 26, 2025
It took a minute for me to figure out that she had meant that Hearst building.
From "The Stars Beneath Our Feet" by David Barclay Moore
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