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newspaper

/ˈn(j)usˌpeɪpɚ/ noun A1
  1. A publication, usually published daily or weekly, containing news and other articles. Traditionally a print publication typically printed on cheap, low-quality paper; today usually digital and often also available in print. (countable) · Many major newspapers are paywalled because they need the revenue.· The paper boy delivers her newspaper to her front porch every weekday.
  2. The news organization that produces such a publication. (countable) · Holonyms: press, news media, media· Some newspapers are afraid to do hard-hitting investigative journalism. But this newspaper doesn't run from a fight.
  3. A quantity of or one of the types of paper on which newspapers are printed. (countable, uncountable)

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The inspector begged the Englishman to seat himself in an armchair, and placed before him the register and documents relative to the Château d’If, giving him all the time he desired for the examination, while De Boville seated himself in a corner, and began to read his newspaper.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 323 · C1
Mortimer drew a folded newspaper out of his pocket.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 15 · C1
When young Rockwall entered the library the old man laid aside his newspaper, looked at him with a kindly grimness on his big, smooth, ruddy countenance, rumpled his mop of white hair with one hand and rattled the keys in his pocket with the other.
Six stories from The Four Million, p. 8 · C1
“I’ve so often read in the newspapers, at the end of trials, “There was some attempts at applause, which was immediately suppressed by the officers of the court,” and I never understood what it meant till now.”
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, p. 88 · B2

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