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personal column

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noun

  1. a newspaper column containing personal messages, advertisements by charities, requests for friendship, holiday companions, etc

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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In a highly personal column, The Sun newspaper's showbiz editor Dan Wootton recounted how he was bullied at school by people using the same language as Maynard had tweeted.

From BBC Nov. 22, 2017

It all started on 4 May 1956 with a small advert in the personal column of the Times.

From BBC May 3, 2016

She wrote a deeply personal column Thursday in her paper, noting she was the same age - 35 - as the woman at the center of the 1992 Supreme Court ruling.

From Seattle Times Nov. 15, 2012

One story has it that William Randolph Hearst Jr. has been holding up negotiations by demanding that the new paper run his personal column.

From Time Magazine Archive

“This note in the personal column ought to interest you. ‘

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

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