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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. News, as in a newspaper or television report, that deals with formal or serious topics and events.
Wiktionary
- n. publishing, broadcasting Factual reportage of events which are socially or politically significant and of a serious nature, as opposed to the reporting of entertaining, humorous, or gossipy accounts of relatively inconsequential events.
WordNet 3.0
- n. news that deals with serious topics or events
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“The fact that a field interrogator was calling him with hard news instead of SOD Underwood shuffled unpleasant possibilities through Purcell’s mind with all the faster-than-the-eye speed of a deck of cards in the hands of a Vegas blackjack dealer.”
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