Gray Lady
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Two things…check that…three things appear to have gone off the rails at the paper we used to call the Gray Lady.
From Salon ● Mar. 5, 2024
The Gray Lady has been looking to trim costs as advertisers dial back spending and consumers rethink subscriptions in the face of high inflation and rising interest rates.
From Reuters ● Jul. 10, 2023
The Gray Lady has been checking out our dining scene lately, even lining up for that busy ferry run to Orcas Island for dinner, and the staff apparently found much to its liking.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 19, 2022
Grab your popcorn, fight fans: It’s the Gray Lady versus the self-proclaimed “Caribou Barbie”—with a few intriguing and slightly unnerving First Amendment battles filling out the undercard.
From Slate ● Feb. 3, 2022
So Voldemort had managed to wheedle the location of the lost diadem out of the Gray Lady.
From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling
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