newsprint
noun
news·print
ˈnüz-ˌprint 
ˈnyüz-
: paper made chiefly from groundwood pulp and used mostly for newspapers
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The chilling statistics, broadcast over the airwaves, published in newsprint and shared on the internet, vary depending on the news organization and its definition of a school shooting.
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Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
Overhead, the newsprint whips by in a blur, running through a succession of cylinders inked cyan, magenta, yellow and black, before converging into a central machine that folds and cuts it into individual papers.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The case hinges on divergent interpretations of how law set in the era of newsprint and telegraphs should apply to social media, which has evolved into the dominant arena for American political debate.
—Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
Two months before the 1929 stock market crash, its publisher, sensing danger, sold his NYSE holdings at a huge profit, amassing the cash to expand operations during the Depression by taking advantage of cheap newsprint.
—Charlotteobserver Administrator, Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
Gray wallpaper rattled in the wind like ashen newsprint in a dying fire.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
Higher newsprint and fuel costs combined with declines in print advertising led to second-quarter losses reported Wednesday by the parent company of The Dallas Morning News.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
In gathering dusk, Raff took two cage traps from the back of her Mazda CX-7, covered their floors with newsprint, which protects a desperate cat from injuring its claws, and baited them with chunks of sardine.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
But most importantly, what will this new feud mean for the newsprint imagery on the cover of Reputation (Taylor’s Version)?
—Vulture, 7 Jan. 2024
Nigel Chiwaya, NBC News, 11 Jan. 2024
Overhead, the newsprint whips by in a blur, running through a succession of cylinders inked cyan, magenta, yellow and black, before converging into a central machine that folds and cuts it into individual papers.
—Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2024
The case hinges on divergent interpretations of how law set in the era of newsprint and telegraphs should apply to social media, which has evolved into the dominant arena for American political debate.
—Ann E. Marimow, Washington Post, 25 Feb. 2024
Two months before the 1929 stock market crash, its publisher, sensing danger, sold his NYSE holdings at a huge profit, amassing the cash to expand operations during the Depression by taking advantage of cheap newsprint.
—Charlotteobserver Administrator, Charlotte Observer, 8 Feb. 2024
Gray wallpaper rattled in the wind like ashen newsprint in a dying fire.
—Lizz Schumer, Peoplemag, 12 Feb. 2024
Higher newsprint and fuel costs combined with declines in print advertising led to second-quarter losses reported Wednesday by the parent company of The Dallas Morning News.
—Dallas News, 27 July 2022
In gathering dusk, Raff took two cage traps from the back of her Mazda CX-7, covered their floors with newsprint, which protects a desperate cat from injuring its claws, and baited them with chunks of sardine.
—Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
But most importantly, what will this new feud mean for the newsprint imagery on the cover of Reputation (Taylor’s Version)?
—Vulture, 7 Jan. 2024
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newsprint
noun
news·print
ˈn(y)üz-ˌprint
: paper made chiefly from wood pulp and used mostly for newspapers
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