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noun broad·sheet \ -ˌshēt \

Definition of broadsheet

1 :broadside 1

2 chiefly British :a newspaper with pages of a size larger than those of a tabloid

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The results are published in a voluble broadsheet with a masthead in Danh Da, a typeface created with Ho Chi Minh City designer Giang Nguyen to attend to the dearth of digital fonts for Vietnamese.

— lori waxman, chicagotribune.com, "This is what intersectional feminist art looks like," 21 June 2017
Those figures, reported by CNBC, would make The Broadsheet: June 16thGood morning, Broadsheet readers!

— daniel bentley, Fortune, "Walmart to Buy Bonobos for $310 Million," 16 June 2017
The newspaper, a broadsheet printed on pink paper, aggressively covered New York business and politics.

— michael kranish and jonathan o'connell, chicagotribune.com, "A high-stakes gamble: How Jared Kushner reacted to previous crises," 27 May 2017
Now compare the Washington Post to Breitbart: The visual differences are comparable to a broadsheet newspaper and a tabloid, with the latter indulging in more sensationalism—the blood red font, the garish details.

— conor friedersdorf, The Atlantic, "'Terrorism Is Aimed at the People Watching'," 23 May 2017
Some researchers go even farther and question the approach of the broadsheets.

— conor friedersdorf, The Atlantic, "'Terrorism Is Aimed at the People Watching'," 23 May 2017
Friedman has no time to talk, because the reviews are just coming in: five stars from the broadsheets!

— hadley freeman, Vogue, "How Sonia Friedman Became the Most Powerful Woman in Theater," 22 May 2017
In addition, the newspaper staff received a second-place award in the front page broadsheet category.

— richard chang, sacbee.com, "Sacramento Bee captures two first-place, four second-place awards in CNPA contest," 20 May 2017
Again in 1921, that very happening year, the poet Manuel Maples Arce plastered Mexico City with broadsheets announcing the birth of a cultural movement.

— holland cotter, New York Times, "“Paint the Revolution: Mexican Modernism, 1910-1950”," 27 Oct. 2016

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