front-page
adjective
of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
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front pagenounthe first and most visible page of a newspaper, magazine, or other publication; front matter.
front-page
1 American
[fruhnt-peyj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
adjective
verb (used with object)
front-paged,
front-paging
front page
2
American
[fruhnt-payj]
/ ˈfrʌntˈpeɪdʒ /
noun
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front pages
plural
front-page
British
noun
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Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of front-page
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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In the last 24 hours, front-page walkbacks of the AI extinction meme have appeared.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
Just now, as it happens, the price of gasoline receives front-page coverage and is flashed almost minute by minute on cable news shows.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2026
The Washington Post mentioned it in the 36th and final paragraph of its front-page story on McVeigh’s arrest.
From Slate ● Apr. 19, 2026
The trial at Oslo district court has lasted almost seven weeks and every day of evidence has been front-page news in Norway.
From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026
He proved to be fully up to the challenge, reigning as the star of two front-page articles in the New York Times and a prominent feature in Time magazine.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
The "damning" Letby hospital report is also the focus of the Daily Mirror's front page, with Health Secretary Yvette Cooper weighing in on the "reprehensible" treatment of parents who lost their babies.
From BBC ● Sep. 16, 2026
Céline Dion's "triumphant return to concert stage" also features on the front page.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
Television presenter Jeremy Clarkson and partner Lisa Hogan beam on the front page of the Star, with the latter detailing her pride after "Jezza" revealed his prostate cancer diagnosis earlier this year.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
"Hasta la vista," declares the Daily Star, which also leads its front page on Anthropic.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
The next day, the national press parroted the figures it had been fed by Strauss: “U.S. Eliminates 95% of Fall-Out from the H-Bomb,” the New York Times reported on its front page.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
That Sunday, the Times front-paged a further downsizing from the vocabulary of evil, psychologizing the murderous Chechen bros with what seemed like existentialist anxiety, by speculating that “signs of alienation” may explain the crime.
From Slate ● Apr. 26, 2013
A Hanoi newspaper, hitherto ardently pro-West, front-paged a huge portrait of Viet Minh Chieftain Ho Chi Minh.
From Time Magazine Archive
Exceptions were the Herald Tribune, which ran a photograph and story on Page One, the tabloid Daily News, which front-paged her in an airview photograph.
From Time Magazine Archive
The New York Times last week front-paged a story on phone call records that apparently should have been part of the Chappaquiddick investigation but were not.
From Time Magazine Archive
But they front-paged what I felt about Northern white and black Freedom Riders going South to “demonstrate.”
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
Two exceptions were the Washington Star-News and the Louisville Courier-Journal, which managed to cut through the intricacies by front-paging capsule highlights of Nixon's statement in addition to giving more detailed stories.
From Time Magazine Archive
See the one shrivel who goes around front-paging his age.
From The University of Hard Knocks by Ralph Parlette
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