on press

idiom

: being printed
The book is on press now and due out soon.

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Once considered a bastion for free expression, America's record on press freedoms has dipped to a historic low, according to Reporters Without Borders. — Sareen Habeshian, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025 Orbán has weakened the country's judicial independence, clamped down on press freedoms and cleared the way for corruption to flourish, according to David Pressman, former U.S. ambassador to Hungary. — Milton Guevara, NPR, 25 Feb. 2025 The announcement, one of many recent White House attacks on press freedom, wrested power from the independent organization of journalists that had overseen presidential reporting for more than a century. — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2025 Advocacy group Reporters Without Borders, which had flagged Sala’s detention as an attack on press freedom, cheered her release. — Nicole Winfield, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for on press

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“On press.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/on%20press. Accessed 25 Mar. 2025.

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