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  • Deniers cite tabloid prevaricators like Glen Beck or the daily telegraph alas, once a great broad-sheet for their 'facts',they're rarely able to reference primary source scientific papers;though deniers with PhD's sometimes cherry pick data from one field and plant it in another, causing asymmetric distortion, confusing the lay-person who then repeats it as fact.

    Scientist Discusses Latest Report of Rising Global Temperatures | Universe Today 2010

  • He was reading a broad-sheet newspaper which, as he showed me, was making a good-taste meal of Ginnie Quint's death.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • He was reading a broad-sheet newspaper which, as he showed me, was making a good-taste meal of Ginnie Quint's death.

    Come To Grief Francis, Dick 1995

  • Some of our big mothers of the broad-sheet have expressed their surprise that Lord John Russell should have penned so long an address to the citizens of London, only the day before his wedding.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 7, 1841 Various

  • Unlike the mainstream broad-sheet and tabloid newspapers, the user can take home a free-sheeter free of cost and with no obligation, save the ethical one to read it.

    Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Various

  • He is not a "first-nighter," who, by the light of the midnight oil, dips his mighty pen in the ink which is to seal on to-morrow's broad-sheet, as he proudly imagines, the professional fate of the artists who are submitted for his censure or his praise.

    Mary Anderson J. M. Farrar

  • Trying to fill up six broad-sheet pages with material translated from

    Behind the News: Voices from Goa's Press Various

  • American broad-sheet, of which publishers stand in awe.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847. Various

  • Mallalieu took a hasty glance at those unusual ornaments and hated them: they were pictures of famous judges in their robes, and of great criminal counsel in their wigs -- and over the chimney-piece, framed in black wood, was an old broad-sheet, printed in big, queer-shaped letters: Mallalieu's hasty glance caught the staring headline -- _Dying

    The Borough Treasurer 1899

  • She handed her broad-sheet sleeping-car ticket to the Russian, who had pushed the conductor aside and now stood within the compartment.

    Jennie Baxter, Journalist Robert Barr 1881

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