front-page

1 of 2

adjective

: printed on the front page of a newspaper
also : very newsworthy

front-page

2 of 2

verb

front-paged; front-paging; front-pages

transitive verb

: to print or report on the front page

Examples of front-page in a Sentence

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Adjective
Her family's high profile made the story front-page news as the NYPD kept up the hunt for her. Peter Van Sant, CBS News, 14 May 2024 Nathan Howard/Bloomberg A huge increase in demand from AI has catapulted data centers into front-page headlines. Dylan Sloan, Fortune, 12 May 2024 At the time of its release, the resonance between The Conversation’s tech and the Watergate break-in was unmistakable but unintended; Coppola wrote the screenplay before the White House Plumbers’ malfeasance became front-page news. Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Apr. 2024 But the scandal was not front-page news, nor did most of the public comprehend the scope of the issue. Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 12 Apr. 2024 Your front-page story on the Sportsmen’s Lodge development (April 4) says there will be 78 units reserved for very-low income out of the 520 total apts. Letters To The Editor, Orange County Register, 8 Apr. 2024 Only God Was Above Us takes its title from a front-page New York Daily News headline quoting the panicked survivor of Aloha Airlines Flight 243. E.r. Pulgar, SPIN, 5 Apr. 2024 In 1984, Susan Faludi, then a twentysomething reporter a few years out from becoming a Pulitzer Prize–winning author, wrote a front-page story about gay hustlers for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Longreads, 4 Apr. 2024 Weeks later, the New York Times published a front-page story reporting that many African Americans agreed with Jackson. Harrison Smith, Washington Post, 26 Mar. 2024
Verb
And that would lead to a front-page story about the then-Karen Farmer in the Dec. 28, 1977, edition of the New York Times. Scott Talley, Freep.com, 19 Mar. 2023 In November of that year, a front-page New York Times article was instrumental in bringing awareness of deep learning technology to the broader public sphere. IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023 On Thursday, so many years later, Japan got itself more front-page baseball news. Stephen Wade, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Mar. 2023 The Padres certainly have become an everyday story this spring, but three front-page-worthy headlines on the same day? Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2023 On July 14, 1944, The Washington Post published a front-page article about the event. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023 Her first front-page story from Japan was about the middle-aged dissolution of a beloved boy band. Claire Moses, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2023 Whitaker notes that later that summer, Carmichael attracted the attention of President Lyndon Johnson after a New York Times front-page story linked him to another SNCC organizer’s anti-White sentiments. Washington Post, 16 Feb. 2023

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Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1917, in the meaning defined above

Verb

1929, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of front-page was in 1917

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“Front-page.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/front-page. Accessed 29 May. 2024.

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