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
Examples of newspaper in a Sentence
Noun
He used some newspaper to get the fire started.
She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.
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Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
Starmer’s visit comes less than two months after a Hong Kong court convicted Jimmy Lai, a former newspaper publisher and a British citizen, under a national security law that Beijing imposed on the territory after massive pro-democracy protests in 2019.
—Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
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
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Noun
An honest newspaper would print a large retraction.
—Arkansas Online, 28 Jan. 2026
Starmer’s visit comes less than two months after a Hong Kong court convicted Jimmy Lai, a former newspaper publisher and a British citizen, under a national security law that Beijing imposed on the territory after massive pro-democracy protests in 2019.
—Ken Moritsugu, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2026
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
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“Newspaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspaper. Accessed 30 Jan. 2026.
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