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The term "August story" has special meaning in the language called newspaperese.
chron.com Chronicle 2011
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This kind of stuffy writing is sometimes called “newspaperese” but also infects books.
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It is just a matter of time before such newspaperese devolves into complaints about "bean counters" and "corporate predators" soiling the supposedly high-minded world of journalistic integrity.
Newspaper Daze Matt Welch 2011
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The meaning of “then nursemaid” is clear, but the construction of the phrase is newspaperese.
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The meaning of “then nursemaid” is clear, but the construction of the phrase is newspaperese.
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The other nation is always amazed to learn the process by which their thoughts, often balanced and full of saving clauses, are converted into newspaperese.
UK Commentators Laban 2003
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The other nation is always amazed to learn the process by which their thoughts, often balanced and full of saving clauses, are converted into newspaperese.
Archive 2003-08-31 Laban 2003
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Cappy Ricks read it, the principal item of interest in it being a purported interview with Matt Peasley, who, in choice newspaperese, had entered a vigorous denial of the charge.
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The Union Bank had closed its doors; the cashier, a young man named Bailey, was apparently under suspicion; the article mentioned Courtleigh Fleming's recent and tragic death in the best vein of newspaperese.
The Bat Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"That's newspaperese," yawns Beauvayse, his supple brown hands knitted at the back of his sleek golden head.
The Dop Doctor Richard Dehan 1897
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