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newsweekly

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

noun

newsweeklies plural
  1. a newsmagazine or newspaper published weekly.


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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

Terrible at business, he has just bought a local newsweekly without mentioning it to Iris, because theirs is nowhere near a marriage of equals.

From New York Times May 5, 2023

Battaglia’s work was also published by major Italian newsweekly magazines L’Espresso and Panorama.

From Seattle Times Apr. 14, 2022

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

Back then, the newsweeklies weren’t releasing much of their content online.

From Slate Sep. 19, 2016

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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