Definitions
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- noun an instance of news
broadcasting
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- noun a short news announcement concerning some on-going news story
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is just like … we-interrupt-this-program-for-important-announcement kind of newsbreak when I kept on seeing Bush's face on the TV screen when the show scheduled for the time slot is that of
Now What, Cat? 2008
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A special newsbreak was interrupting the broadcast.
Jack Blank and the Imagine Nation Matt Myklusch 2010
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Could this could be exactly the kind of big, important newsbreak that CNN has been looking for to turn things around?
David Wild: It's A Family Affair: A Playlist for Larry and the King Family 2010
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Could this could be exactly the kind of big, important newsbreak that CNN has been looking for to turn things around?
It's A Family Affair: A Playlist for Larry and the King Family 2010
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I kept getting madder and madder yesterday because at each newsbreak they were pimping Mayor Bloomberg and his opposition to the “Gun Show Loophole,” for the children.
ABC: Scaring Parents About Kid’s Friend’s Gun Owning Parents - Warner_Todd_Huston’s blog - RedState 2009
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Really, this is less of a newsbreak and more of a surrender -- 2008 will be the year that peep-toe boots broke.
Kate Schelter Says You'll Be Wearing Peep-Toe Boots This Autumn 2008
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By this election we will be lucky if the conventions get 60 seconds on a newsbreak updates, interrupting the commercials.
Marvin Kitman: Now is the Time to Come to the Aid of the Parties 2008
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Now a knot of journalists in the tiny television studio in Building 127 on the sprawling Microsoft campus were being handed a press release with yet another newsbreak from Bizarro-world: Bill Gates was quitting as Microsoft CEO, a job he'd held almost since the PC industry's birth and his puberty.
The Two Big Bets 2008
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Discussing the newsbreak that ended Eliot Spitzers governorship of New York, Mr. Landman appears to mean simply that there is no preference for the newspaper over the Web as the place to break news: If the news comes out, it gets published both to the Web and the paper as soon as possible (which means the Web wins).
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And the business model as was pointed out yesterday when they had their big newsbreak about Obama saying what he said.
David Carr and Michael Wolff Spar on the Future of Media 2008
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