news·pa·per
ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər 
ˈnyüz-,
ˈn(y)üs-
1
: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
2
: an organization that publishes a newspaper
3
: the paper of a newspaper : newsprint
newspapered; newspapering; newspapers
: to do newspaper work
Synonyms
Examples of newspaper in a Sentence
Noun
He used some newspaper to get the fire started.
She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.
Recent Examples on the Web
Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
On Monday, New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn announced to his staff that the newspaper's inquiry into who leaked internal dissent over a planned episode of its podcast The Daily to another news outlet proved inconclusive.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
Jillian Gorman had a great writeup for USC’s student newspaper, the Daily Trojan.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Former prime minister Boris Johnson — who has occupied himself with a newspaper column and speaking gigs since being pressured out of Parliament — pointed to the tobacco ban as a prime example of what’s wrong with his Conservative Party right now.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Was Drake, who advertised his poetry book Titles Ruin Everything by taking out full-page ads in newspapers around the country last year, trying to replicate that 2006-era energy?
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
The email was earlier reported by Electrek, an online news site, and Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper.
—Jason Karaian, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
The encounter was written up by a tabloid newspaper — Bass says the man who chatted him up was in fact a journalist — and the Mississippi native says speculation about his sexuality went into overdrive.
—Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
My profession and my newspaper, proudly committed to separating facts from fabrication, are at a crossroads of sustainability.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.
—Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014
This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.
—Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018
The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.
—Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
Noun
Reviews are based on product samples purchased by this newspaper or provided by manufacturers.
—Jolene Thym, The Mercury News, 17 Apr. 2024
On Monday, New York Times Executive Editor Joseph Kahn announced to his staff that the newspaper's inquiry into who leaked internal dissent over a planned episode of its podcast The Daily to another news outlet proved inconclusive.
—David Folkenflik, NPR, 16 Apr. 2024
Jillian Gorman had a great writeup for USC’s student newspaper, the Daily Trojan.
—Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 16 Apr. 2024
Former prime minister Boris Johnson — who has occupied himself with a newspaper column and speaking gigs since being pressured out of Parliament — pointed to the tobacco ban as a prime example of what’s wrong with his Conservative Party right now.
—William Booth, Washington Post, 16 Apr. 2024
Was Drake, who advertised his poetry book Titles Ruin Everything by taking out full-page ads in newspapers around the country last year, trying to replicate that 2006-era energy?
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 15 Apr. 2024
The email was earlier reported by Electrek, an online news site, and Handelsblatt, a German business newspaper.
—Jason Karaian, New York Times, 15 Apr. 2024
The encounter was written up by a tabloid newspaper — Bass says the man who chatted him up was in fact a journalist — and the Mississippi native says speculation about his sexuality went into overdrive.
—Eric Andersson, Peoplemag, 13 Apr. 2024
My profession and my newspaper, proudly committed to separating facts from fabrication, are at a crossroads of sustainability.
—John Penner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
Verb
My friend David Carr, who died in 2015, had a line about newspapering that’s true of cooking as well.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
Correction: An earlier version of this story misstated the name of the gymnast who newspaper Moskovsky Korrespondent reported Putin was planning to marry.
—Owen Matthews, Newsweek, 19 Aug. 2014
This may seem like an ironic gift for a man who newspaper publishers once railed against as the destroyer of classified ads, a high-margin pillar in broadsheet and tabloid profits.
—Glenn Fleishman, Fortune, 11 June 2018
The old Hollywood’s history of infatuation with newspapering met the new Hollywood’s detestation of Nixon.
—Mark Feeney, Slate Magazine, 14 June 2017
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“Newspaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspaper. Accessed 24 Apr. 2024.
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