tabloid

noun

Definition of tabloidnext
as in survey

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Recent Examples of tabloid Murdoch, played by Pearce, recruited Lamb to reinvent it as a populist tabloid capable of overtaking the dominant Daily Mirror. — Chris Gardner, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026 Another Oscar winner, Danny Boyle, has adapted James Graham’s Ink, a play about Rupert Murdoch’s 1969 acquisition of British newspaper The Sun, and its transformation into the country’s most influential and outrageous tabloid. — David Bloom, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026 Also in 2024, the tabloid The Sun quoted insiders who said that Suri had not seen her father in more than 11 years. — Martha Ross, Mercury News, 27 July 2026 Set in 1969, the film charts how Murdoch and Lamb launched what became Britain’s bestselling tabloid. — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 23 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tabloid
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tabloid
  1. survey
  2. summary
  3. synopsis
  4. summation
  5. sketch
  6. brief
  7. syllabus
  8. overview
Noun
  • As many as 183,000 giant tortoises thrive in the Seychelles, a new survey has found.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Others tried and failed too, despite survey data showing the basin’s gassy potential.
    — Jordan Blum, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
Definition of survey
Noun
  • At the age of 36, Fazio instead provides a summary of his experiences.
    — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
  • The remaining men were handed lighter punishments, the summaries show.
    — Sharon Otterman, New York Times, 4 Oct. 2026
Definition of summary
Noun
  • Any quick synopsis of what else is happening in your professional life?
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 1 Oct. 2026
  • Per the synopsis, the eight-episode series, set in 1994, follows Demon Destroyer, a world-famous rock band whose members are crushed by their own stage mascot during a live performance and sent straight to Hell.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 30 Sep. 2026
Definition of synopsis
Noun
  • Unlike many sports, in which the final score is simply a summation of the match and doesn’t tell you anything about how the story progressed, a tennis scoreline tells a narrative.
    — Lev Akabas, Sportico.com, 31 Aug. 2026
  • So, that’s a summation of something that used to be a fun day.
    — Assistant Sports Editor, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026
Definition of summation
Noun
  • The picture painted from the interview subjects, who occasionally draw sketches of weapons-screen interfaces on notepads, is of a computerized tracking-and-killing apparatus, culled from the surveillance Israel keeps of nearly every phone in Gaza.
    — Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times, 9 Oct. 2026
  • But frescos don’t put shoes on a poor child’s cold feet and sketches of flying machines didn’t put Orville Wright in the sky.
    — Christopher Koopman, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Definition of sketch
Noun
  • When a lobbyist for former Nigerian Vice President Atiku Abubakar — an electoral opponent of Tinubu — filed an amicus brief, Greenspan sought to make clear that the two were not working together.
    — Adrian Elimian, semafor.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • In an amicus brief filed in support of a September petition by the New Jersey attorney general's office, the NFL expressed support for prior court rulings favoring state regulation of prediction markets.
    — Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of brief
Noun
  • Most mega-bestsellers of eras past are forgotten, and even the award winners that make their way into academic syllabi fade into dusty bibliography.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2026
  • In the time since the encampment organizers folded up their tents, the fight has moved from the quad to the classroom, from a protest anyone could see to a comment in a lecture or a line in a syllabus.
    — Jonathan Greenblatt, Sun Sentinel, 24 Sep. 2026
Definition of syllabus
Noun
  • PIoneer Venus 1 carried 16 different instruments to study Venus from an orbit of about 99 miles (160 kilometers), with the probe taking just over 23 hours to circle the planet, according to a NASA overview.
    — Tariq Malik, Space.com, 8 Oct. 2026
  • The Senate Fiscal Agency prepared an overview report on the proposal that explains the ballot question and potential impact.
    — Paula Wethington, CBS News, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of overview

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