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stop press

noun

  1. news items inserted into a newspaper after the printing has been started

  2. the space regularly left blank for this

“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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Despite Boies’ efforts, however, it seems unlikely that a letter will stop press momentum on the story.

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The heart-stopping moment, which might give the 2012 Locog officials a shudder down their spines, was recorded in a single stop press news paragraph on 31 July, headed The Olympic Flame.

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But his eager eyes scanned the stop press paragraph as he went.

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Ah!—here we are!—there is more in the stop press space of this one.

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For any sake stop press, cancel that leader, put back the tariff, votes for women, anything, only stop it....

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