magazine section

American  

noun

1. a magazinelike section in the Sunday editions of many newspapers, containing articles rather than news items and often letters, reviews, stories, puzzles, etc.

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Etymology

Origin of magazine section

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

He pitched a feature on Marvel to the editor of the Herald Tribune’s magazine section, James Bellows, and got it approved.

From Slate • Feb. 16, 2021

One reason for that mainstreaming shift is hinted at by the magazine section in which that 1943 article appeared: music.

From Time • Apr. 20, 2015

I went to a friendly neighborhood bookseller on Sunday, and looked at the friendly national sports magazine section, and discovered that the national sports magazine people uniformly believe the Redskins will stink.

From Washington Post • Aug. 29, 2011

Chatwin had disliked an early-1970s stint in journalism, on the staff of the magazine section of London’s Sunday Times, nearly as much as he’d loathed Sotheby’s.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2011

“I’ll have to remember that. I’m talking about the girl in the magazine section, in the purple shirt, and the boy in the tax section, reading Your Guide to the IRS upside down.”

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix