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newsprint
[ nooz-print, nyooz- ]
noun
- a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.
newsprint
/ ˈnjuːzˌprɪnt /
noun
- an inexpensive wood-pulp paper used for newspapers
Word History and Origins
Origin of newsprint1
Example Sentences
It’s only good for the media that need to fill hours of airtime and pages of newsprint.
Sprawled on the floor in a heap of newsprint, cutting and pasting found poetry collages.
Often, the newsprint reads, the fires were battled at abandoned houses.
And when word of that economic debacle spread, the government said it would ration imports of newsprint.
First, the cost of printing a newspaper shot up due to increasing newsprint prices and a depreciating rupee.
He thought they should only be printed on newsprint, that they should remain disposable.
In a world where print is being eased out by digital, he remains devoted to the power and influence of paper and newsprint.
My imagination raced through columns of newsprint in which the Metamorphizer was made the butt of reporters' humor.
Their names seldom appeared in newsprint, or over the Berlin radio.
When next he spoke it was from behind the shelter of his newsprint shield, and his voice seemed choked.
But words of newsprint broke through this factitious barrier.
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