as in colloquial
having the style and content of everyday conversation
a newsy TV program covering the local scene
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Recent Examples of newsy
It’s been such a newsy week for the couple that Kelce ranking 37th on the NFL 100 list of best players barely registered on social media.
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
At the same time, Everybody’s Live harkens back to a chattier, looser era—like The Merv Griffin Show, where interviews could run half an hour or longer, or Tom Snyder’s The Tomorrow Show, a newsier hour of talk that aired after Carson’s The Tonight Show for eight years.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets?
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 21 Feb. 2025
The paper, which hit newsstands every Thursday and was packed with reviews, event listings, newsy and satirical columns, and both free and paid ads, thrived in print for decades.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
At the same time, Everybody’s Live harkens back to a chattier, looser era—like The Merv Griffin Show, where interviews could run half an hour or longer, or Tom Snyder’s The Tomorrow Show, a newsier hour of talk that aired after Carson’s The Tonight Show for eight years.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
Ready for some more recent newsy nuggets?
—Vlada Gelman, TVLine, 21 Feb. 2025
The paper, which hit newsstands every Thursday and was packed with reviews, event listings, newsy and satirical columns, and both free and paid ads, thrived in print for decades.
—Roxana Popescu, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for newsy
Adjective
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The language is colloquial, down-to-earth.—
Andrew Rojecki,
The Conversation,
21 Oct. 2025
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The concept of reawakening is a major theme in this year’s fashion show, celebrating the colloquial woman, from morning to night.—
Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
15 Oct. 2025
Adjective
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Waddingham plays gossipy yacht guest Heidi in The Woman in Cabin 10 — but in real life, the actress is focused on being a single mother to her daughter.—
Lynsey Eidell,
PEOPLE,
11 Oct. 2025
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My father also still relished that gossipy story from our neighborhood about a man whose wife left him and took the children and all the furniture.—
Susan Cheever,
Vogue,
29 Sep. 2025
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“Newsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newsy. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.
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