newshawk
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of newshawk
Example Sentences
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Although supposedly off-the-record, one newshawk printed it, and by so doing made two more last-ditch enemies for the bill, both of whom last week spoke up.
From Time Magazine Archive
As they emerged a newshawk approached spluttering Freshman No. 1, asked why he was there.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Hearst newshawk interviewed Commissioner Schorenstein as follows: Q. Can you read or write English?
From Time Magazine Archive
But General Convention adjourned and it took a newshawk to remind Presiding Bishop Perry of the Bishops and Ze Barney Thorne Phillips of the Deputies that nothing had been done about the message.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was just too much going on around me that I didn't get, and me, I'm supposed to be the razor-sharp newshawk who gets everything.
From Four-Day Planet by Piper, H. Beam
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