newspaper
[nooz-pey-per, nyooz-, noos-, nyoos-]
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Origin of newspaper
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Examples from the Web for newspaper
Contemporary Examples
And then the Vatican newspaper: “Pope performs miracle allowing Fidel to walk on water.”
The Life and Hard Times Of The Family A Cuban Defector Left BehindBrin-Jonathan Butler
December 19, 2014
It was an attempt to combat a growing chill on free speech in Turkey while placing his newspaper at the center of the debate.
The increasingly vicious debate has since migrated into newspaper columns and TV.
By Jason McGahan No newspaper dares to publish the truth about the drug lords in Tamaulipas.
7 Must-Read Stories about Mexican Cartels, Kansas City and Picasso: The Best of The BeastWilliam Boot
October 25, 2014
Guilavogui clapped his empty hands together and went up to the street to fold the newspaper dispensers up by the subway entrance.
Historical Examples
The next day's newspaper brought tidings of what had happened.
Harriet, The Moses of Her PeopleSarah H. Bradford
In one hand she carried a large bundle, in a newspaper wrapping.
Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton CampusJessie Graham Flower
The daily newspaper lay by the stove, with the corner torn accusingly.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
He sat down and picked up the newspaper, and the print was clear.
VivietteWilliam J. Locke
Does a newspaper, even the ubiquitous Petit Journal, penetrate into these solitudes?
The Roof of FranceMatilda Betham-Edwards
newspaper
- a weekly or daily publication consisting of folded sheets and containing articles on the news, features, reviews, and advertisementsOften shortened to: paper
- (as modifier)a newspaper article
- a less common name for newsprint
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Word Origin and History for newspaper
n.
1660s, though the thing itself is older (see gazette); from news (n.) + paper (n.).
[T]he newspaper that drops on your doorstep is a partial, hasty, incomplete, inevitably somewhat flawed and inaccurate rendering of some of the things we have heard about in the past twenty-four hours -- distorted, despite our best efforts to eliminate gross bias, by the very process of compression that makes it possible for you to lift it from the doorstep and read it in about an hour. If we labeled the product accurately, then we could immediately add: But it's the best we could do under the circumstances, and we will be back tomorrow with a corrected and updated version. [David Broder, Pulitzer Prize acceptance speech, 1973]
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