news
/nuːz/ noun A1- New information of interest. · Is there any news about the storm?· That was not much news in the press release.
- Information about current events disseminated by the media. · Did you hear/read/see the latest news?· The news is that a new leader will be elected in one month.
- Messages posted on newsgroups.
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Is there any news of game afoot?
“I heard some news from Ikki (his quills make him presumptuous) of a man-thing that was entered into a wolf pack, but I did not believe.
All that while the fight with Baloo went on, and the monkeys yelled in the tank round Bagheera, and Mang the Bat, flying to and fro, carried the news of the great battle over the jungle, till even Hathi the Wild Elephant trumpeted, and, far away, scattered bands of the Monkey-Folk woke and came leaping along the tree-roads to help their comrades in the Cold Lairs, and the noise of the fight roused all the day birds for miles round.
The news of Nag’s death was all over the garden, for the sweeper had thrown the body on the rubbish-heap.
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