newsletter
Americannoun
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newsletters
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a written report, issued periodically, typically by a business, institution, or other organization, that presents information and news to people with a specific interest in the organization or subject.
our co-op’s monthly newsletter;
an employee newsletter.
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a written report and analysis of the news, often providing forecasts, typically directed at a special audience, as businesspeople, and distributed to subscribers.
a stock-market newsletter.
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Also called: news-sheet. a printed periodical bulletin circulated to members of a group
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history a written or printed account of the news
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of newsletter
Explanation
A newsletter is a regular, periodic publication that provides information to a specific group of people. You might subscribe to a newsletter that gives you shopping tips, or one that features information about caring for your pet ferret. Belonging to a club or a church sometimes includes receiving monthly newsletters full of news and upcoming events. Schools often send newsletters home to students' parents, so they know what's happening during the semester. Many newsletters are printed on paper and sent through the mail, while others are distributed via email. The term newsletter was common in the seventeenth century, but it fell out of favor for many years until a revival in the twentieth century.
Example Sentences
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This story originally appeared in “The Bite,” my weekly food newsletter for Salon.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2026
"The world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency," Altman told Politico's technology-focused newsletter Decoded.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
Today’s newsletter was curated and edited by Bharbi Hazarika and Gary Mitchell in collaboration with Editor in Chief Emma Tucker.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
“It has a lot of question marks,” said David A. Gross, who writes the movie industry newsletter FranchiseRe.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
She holds up the most recent newsletter and I know what’s coming.
From "The Help" by Kathryn Stockett
Ideas can come from anywhere: industry newsletters, TikTok, Reddit, other toy companies and customers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
The last step was drizzling a tablespoon of good olive oil over the batter which was a trick I had learned in one of the myriad baking newsletters I now subscribed to.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
The table below lists stocks of companies based outside the U.S. that currently are recommended by any of the investment newsletters monitored by my performance auditing firm.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026
Keep track by signing up to newsletters that list upcoming openings in the local area.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Yet it’s considered acceptable if it’s done unknowingly by earnest but ignorant publishers of stock newsletters, or by practitioners of quack medicine, or by television evangelists.
From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos
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