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-payj]
/ 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
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of front-page
An Americanism dating back to 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Europe and South America picked up the front-page story.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2026
But when it comes to Samsung, the family dynasty behind it is so complicated – and the company so crucial to the South Korean economy – that it's front-page news.
From BBC ● Apr. 29, 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
“All the President’s Men” underscores that sentiment with its matter-of-fact final shot, watching a teletype machine writing out years of front-page headlines leading to Nixon’s resignation.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
The New York Times covered his exoneration and homecoming in a front-page story.
From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson
Major League Baseball wrapped a postseason advertisement around the front page of The Times this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
Elsewhere on the front page, two contestants from this season of the Celebrity Traitors, Maya Jama and Richard E Grant, are pictured scheming in their iconic green cloaks.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
The country’s biggest, most important newspapers increasingly feature on the front page of their traditional print editions news that has been available on their websites for days.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
The Cornell Daily Sun, having followed the case from the beginning, made the bold decision to publish all seven defendants’ names on the paper’s front page in an editorial titled, “Cornell Won’t, We Will.”
From Salon ● Oct. 2, 2026
The front page had multiple stories about the Global Youth Summit on the Environment.
From "City Spies" by James Ponti
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
Last spring, from Hong Kong, he ostensibly entered the People's Republic and produced a five-part series that the paper front-paged.
From Time Magazine Archive
While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain.
From Time Magazine Archive
At week's end a new Italian daily, la Republica, front-paged the names of seven CIA agents in Rome.
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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