as in broadcast
chiefly US
a radio or television program that reports the news
the nightly TV newscast
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Recent Examples of newscast
The husband-wife duo of Dave Walker and Lois Hart anchored the first newscast with no fancy introduction, no mission statement, just an immediate recitation of the day’s headlines.
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Audio can now be captioned in real-time for the hearing-impaired watching live newscasts.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Nexstar contends the deal would strengthen TV station economics, allowing stations to bolster their news gathering and expand the number of newscasts.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
On April 17, Tony Dokoupil ended his 15th week as anchor of the CBS Evening News — the same amount of time that the newscast’s previous anchors, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, had this season.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
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Brian Stelter, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
Audio can now be captioned in real-time for the hearing-impaired watching live newscasts.
—Kaitlyn Schallhorn, Oc Register, 4 May 2026
Nexstar contends the deal would strengthen TV station economics, allowing stations to bolster their news gathering and expand the number of newscasts.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2026
On April 17, Tony Dokoupil ended his 15th week as anchor of the CBS Evening News — the same amount of time that the newscast’s previous anchors, John Dickerson and Maurice DuBois, had this season.
—Rick Porter, HollywoodReporter, 23 Apr. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for newscast
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Rather than focusing on the White House setting itself, White said his attention quickly turned toward how bugs could affect lighting, camera shots and the overall broadcast presentation during a live pay-per-view event.—
Alejandro Avila OutKick,
FOXNews.com,
19 May 2026
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Naive context-sharing patterns, global caches, aggressive compaction and broadcast scratch pads often make this worse, not better.—
Shailesh Manjrekar,
Forbes.com,
18 May 2026
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Economists at the New York Fed published their own analysis the same day, concluding that overall AI exposure shows little link to declining job postings—and the drop in postings for high-exposure roles actually predated ChatGPT entirely.—
Nick Lichtenberg,
Fortune,
19 May 2026
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The posting involves 158 files — documents, photos and videos from NASA, the FBI, Defense Department, and State Department.—
Leonard David,
Space.com,
19 May 2026
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The state’s political ethics watchdog is investigating the campaign of gubernatorial candidate Tom Steyer and an influencer who boosted him online for potentially violating a state law on political advertisements.—
Lia Russell,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2026
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The film exists partly as an advertisement for Firstman’s softer side.—
Richard Lawson,
HollywoodReporter,
15 May 2026
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One Burger King ad shows Grogu (also known as Baby Yoda) and his adoptive father, the Mandalorian, walking into a cantina, where a Burger King employee is showing off a tray of food.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
22 May 2026
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The ad, which cost $221,000 according to filings, may have been a back-door effort to drum up GOP support, betting that getting Pratt into the next round with Bass could give her an easier path to victory in the general election.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
22 May 2026
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The Athletic has live coverage of the 2026 NFL schedule release.—
Sam Warren,
New York Times,
15 May 2026
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Week 1 Other opening week highlights were announced before the full schedule release on Thursday night.—
Rob Maaddi,
Chicago Tribune,
15 May 2026
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Its telecast is part reality show, part débutante ball, part award ceremony.—
Dan Greene,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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For the 61st annual telecast, though, the powers-that-be wanted the show to get back to its roots… and in this case, and maybe this case alone, country music rootsiness means the Las Vegas Strip.—
Chris Willman,
Variety,
17 May 2026
Cite this Entry
“Newscast.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newscast. Accessed 24 May. 2026.
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