newsprint
noun
news·print
ˈnüz-ˌprint 
ˈnyüz-
: paper made chiefly from groundwood pulp and used mostly for newspapers
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According to Jones, Ahlhauser spent about half an hour on the shoot, setting up klieg-like lights and posing the young woman on a gray box with a roll of newsprint.
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Jim Higgins, USA Today, 28 May 2026
Āyandigān lasted a mere three more months after that tumultuous May day, but its fragile newsprint was preserved.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2026
The restaurant will be launching lunch eventually—with, naturally, Sunday roasts, a pub trapping as proper and totemic as malt vinegar and newsprint, or pastry with a piscine head sticking out.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
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Jim Higgins, USA Today, 28 May 2026
Āyandigān lasted a mere three more months after that tumultuous May day, but its fragile newsprint was preserved.
—April White, JSTOR Daily, 20 May 2026
The restaurant will be launching lunch eventually—with, naturally, Sunday roasts, a pub trapping as proper and totemic as malt vinegar and newsprint, or pastry with a piscine head sticking out.
—Helen Rosner, New Yorker, 17 May 2026
There’s an image of New York City, calcified in film, memoir, and newsprint, of a city built on a foundation of scruffy subcultures, especially those communities grounded in the city’s hundreds of distinct diasporas.
—Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 25 Apr. 2026
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“Newsprint.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newsprint. Accessed 7 Jun. 2026.
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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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