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newsweekly

American  
[nooz-week-lee, nyooz-] / ˈnuzˌwik li, ˈnjuz- /

noun

  • newsweeklies
    plural
  1. a newsmagazine or newspaper published weekly.


Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms


Etymology

Origin of newsweekly

First recorded in 1945–50; news + weekly


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All those years of churning out newsweekly copy helped make Whitaker an instinctive crafter of miniature character arcs who chooses the right details and paints portraits with swift, economical strokes.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2025

In 2008, I was the editor of an alternative newsweekly in Birmingham, Howie’s hometown and my own.

From Salon ● Feb. 9, 2025

The Italian newsweekly L’Espresso in 2017 published the audio recordings of the migrants’ desperate calls for help and Italian and Maltese authorities seemingly delaying the rescue.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

L’Obs, a newsweekly, said that the review veered into personal attacks against Ms. Berest, describing her as an “expert on Parisian chic” and as entering a gas chamber with “her big red sole clogs.”

From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2021

We laughed and said we might as well ask for Time magazine, because The Economist was also a newsweekly.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

“I hate thinking about all the magazines and newsweeklies and newspapers that have shuddered to a halt since I began working,” Orlean writes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2025

You have said that newsweeklies provided a cultural lifeline for you and used Life magazine pages to demonstrate your response to its reports on the “counterculture.”

From New York Times ● Oct. 3, 2019

They founded scores of independent newsweeklies in the 70s and 80s.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 2, 2017

There were three main television networks and a handful of cable television stations, a few giant newsweeklies and a host of big-city newspapers.

From Slate ● Apr. 6, 2017

District Court in Phoenix on behalf of several bookstores and publishing associations, the owner of the Village Voice and 12 other alternative newsweeklies nationwide, and the National Press Photographers Association.

From US News ● Sep. 23, 2014

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