newsprint

noun

news·​print ˈnüz-ˌprint 

ˈnyüz-

: paper made chiefly from groundwood pulp and used mostly for newspapers

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The Tribune uses the tunnels to transport rolls of newsprint 1,400 feet from its warehouse on North Water Street to the printing plant in Tribune Tower. —Chicago Tribune, 26 June 2022

Inventories of containerboard, the material that is folded into boxes, are ample and more manufacturing capacity is coming from mills being converted from making writing paper and newsprint. —Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 22 Nov. 2022

Lower advertising and marketing revenue and higher newsprint and other costs resulted in a third-quarter loss for the parent company of The Dallas Morning News. —Dallas News, 26 Oct. 2022

Any newsstand or corner deli received copies in the evening, and the Sunday paper, back then, was immense, eight or so pounds of newsprint. —Alice Markham-cantor, Curbed, 26 July 2022

Higher newsprint, services and distribution costs were offset by a $1.3 million reduction in employee costs. —Dallas News, 8 Mar. 2022

The bingo was relaxing: the soft whirr of the balls in the air machine, the mild concentration of applying the ink dabber to the newsprint bingo card, the smell of cigarettes that wafted in from the entryway between games. —Emily Witt, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2022

As a result, Next Digital couldn’t use its cash flow to pay for newsprint, web servers or journalists’ salaries, forcing it to close Apple Daily. —L. Gordon Crovitz And Mark L. Clifford, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2022

Like Rosenberg, the great champion of Willem de Kooning’s paintings, Schjeldahl was similarly enthralled with the Dutch immigrant, treasuring a simple abstraction the artist brushed on newsprint. —Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 23 Oct. 2022

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Word History

First Known Use

1909, in the meaning defined above

Kids Definition

newsprint

noun

news·​print ˈn(y)üz-ˌprint 

: paper made chiefly from wood pulp and used mostly for newspapers