chiefly British
: a space or column in a newspaper containing last-minute news items usually printed from a fudge
hadn't seen anything in the stop press or the early papers—
Christopher Bush
Christopher Bush1
: made or inserted while a printing press is stopped in the course of a run
a stop-press alteration
a stop-press correction
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: of up-to-the-minute significance or interest : timely
many a worthy book of scholarship might be all the better for … relating itself to the stop-press facts of life—James Cameron
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“Stop press.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stop%20press. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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