news·pa·per
ˈnüz-ˌpā-pər 
ˈnyüz-,
ˈn(y)üs-
1
: a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
2
: an organization that publishes a newspaper
3
: the paper of a newspaper : newsprint
newspapered; newspapering; newspapers
: to do newspaper work
Examples of newspaper in a Sentence
Noun
He used some newspaper to get the fire started.
She worked for the newspaper for 20 years.
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Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Sensational newspaper accounts later suggested the three men had starved to death in the boat after attempting to eat their life vests—a theory that was soon debunked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
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Noun
The seed round was co-led by Sharp Alpha, a venture capital firm based in New York, and dmg ventures, the venture capital arm of DMGT, which owns the Daily Mail newspaper among other holdings.
—Tim Casey, Forbes.com, 14 Apr. 2025
Sensational newspaper accounts later suggested the three men had starved to death in the boat after attempting to eat their life vests—a theory that was soon debunked.
—Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2025
Verb
My friend David Carr, who died in 2015, had a line about newspapering that’s true of cooking as well.
—Sam Sifton, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2020
What trends online, even if artificially driven, helps influence everything from what stories newspaper reporters pursue to which guests radio show producers book.
—P.w. Singer, Time, 19 Oct. 2019
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“Newspaper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/newspaper. Accessed 17 Apr. 2025.
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