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having the style and content of everyday conversation
a newsy TV program covering the local scene
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Recent Examples of newsy
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.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
The newsiest bits may have been that there’s an upgrade coming for Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin ride at Magic Kingdom and the kids-pay-half-price ticket offer coming this summer.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Wall Street is about to get hit with the newsiest week yet ahead of the election — just as the stock market has started to falter.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
The newsiest part of the proceedings was a 4-2 FEC vote determining that Fox News's debate rules had not violated the law.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 June 2024
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 7 Apr. 2025
The newsiest bits may have been that there’s an upgrade coming for Buzz Lightyear’s Space Ranger Spin ride at Magic Kingdom and the kids-pay-half-price ticket offer coming this summer.
—Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Apr. 2025
Wall Street is about to get hit with the newsiest week yet ahead of the election — just as the stock market has started to falter.
—Sarah Min, CNBC, 25 Oct. 2024
The newsiest part of the proceedings was a 4-2 FEC vote determining that Fox News's debate rules had not violated the law.
—Geoffrey Skelley, ABC News, 20 June 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for newsy
Adjective
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Twain dared to buck the expectations of critics by using the colloquial dialect and slang of those with little education.—
Kyra Davis Lurie
June 11,
Literary Hub,
11 June 2025
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So what follows is the colloquial Q&A, more or less unedited, from my email exchange with that reporter.—
George Calhoun,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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The middle class Maitri lives in a gossipy building complex with her mother Shobha (Geeta Agrawal).—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
17 June 2025
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The participants are not just revealing this to strangers who make up the bulk of the show’s viewership, but also, by default, to potentially gossipy friends, neighbors, colleagues and professional acquaintances.—
Nina Metz,
Chicago Tribune,
21 May 2025
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“Newsy.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/newsy. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.
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