Definition of dateline
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:a line in a written document or a printed publication giving the date and place of composition or issue
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The international dateline also marks the border between Russia and the United States off Alaska’s west coast.
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This was reported last week on an inside page with a dateline of Yosemite National Park, where the Merced River is running like a wild freight train.
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The full Post story, with a Kiev dateline, is here.
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Dateline NBC’ and correspondent Keith Morrison revisit Versace’s murder 20 years ago on Miami Beach at 9 p.m. Friday.
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For two months last year, a smoky plume stretched around half the globe at the equator, drifting from East Africa to the international dateline in the western Pacific Ocean.
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The average page has a main header and footer and then may also use the same tags within an article tag, for example, to wrap a headline, dateline and other auxiliary information.
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