press release

noun

: an official statement that gives information to newspapers, magazines, television news programs, and radio stations

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Secretary Kristi Noem explained in a press release. Thomas Westerholm, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 May 2025 Jeremy Koch, 42, fatally stabbed his wife, Bailey, and their two sons, Hudson and Asher, on Saturday at their home in Johnson Lake, Nebraska State Patrol said in a press release. Joseph Wilkinson, New York Daily News, 12 May 2025 Gone are the days of writing a press release about a company and emailing it to a thousand news sites or placing it on the newswire. Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025 According to a press release — issued by the New Hampshire Attorney General John M. Formella, New Hampshire State Police Colonel Mark B. Hall and Pembroke Police Department Chief Gary R. Gaskell — police in Pembroke were called to a home by a resident at around 1 a.m. local time on Friday, May 9. Charlotte Phillipp, People.com, 11 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for press release

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“Press release.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/press%20release. Accessed 16 May. 2025.

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