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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With a dateline from Fort Benning, Ga., Hersh began his story this way: Lt.
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The letter, which carried a Rochester dateline, was addressed to Maj.
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Famous for his wit and his rope tricks, Rogers wrote a syndicated newspaper column starting in 1922, the year before the annexation vote, until his death in 1935, using the city as the dateline.
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Most consumers saw little necessity to educate themselves about the political leanings of media owners, modes of attribution for quotes, journalistic sourcing protocols, the meaning of datelines, or other indicators of veracity.
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The dateline for the autopsy of this U.S. team may read Couva, a tiny town that no U.S. soccer fan will ever forget, but the seeds for this dark day were planted in several locations.
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The dateline is Redington Shores, not Reddington Shores. ___ HURRICANE NEWSLETTER - Get the best of the AP’s all-formats reporting on Irma and Harvey in your inbox: —http://apne.ws/ahYQGtb Copyright 2017 The Associated Press.
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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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