lede

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I'm using this smooch confession as a lede, and a cheap lede at that, to segue into the fact that "American Movie" is 10 years old, and an anniversary screening is set for Thursday, Jan. 22, at Landmark's Oriental Theatre at 7 p.m.

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  1. A Middle English form of lead.
  2. A Middle English form of lead.
  3. A man; in the plural, men; people. Is no lede that leueth that he ne loueth mede. Piers Plowman (C), iv. 283.
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  • Which, unfortunately, misses the point.The lede is about the flu strain that has spread "from Mexico"; the people who are concerned are residents "with ties to Mexico"; the first Real Person quoted has family just outside the Mexican capital; an advocate quoted later in the story observes that "most people in the country illegally come from rural areas of Mexico and not Mexico City."
  • A top adviser to President Barack Obama takes a dim view of last week's anti-tax "tea parties," promoted by organizers in the spirit of the Boston Tea Party.As a general rule, the lede isn't a good place to be cleverly ambiguous.
  • A visual lede is a great way to draw people in and to assist in an understanding of the concept. —  Journalism Hope - Seeking Hope via Grassroots Journalism
  • Of course, the lede is buried at the bottom: "... visitors from the" red "states that voted for Bush in 2004 are more likely to visit wife-swapping sites ..." —  Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll
  • Tim thoughtfully provides his original headline and lede: —  Imagethief
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  1. Middle English, also leede, leod, leode, a man, ledes, leedes, people, tenements, from Anglo-Saxon leód, masculine, a man, plural leóde, people, also leód, feminine, a people, nation, plural leóde, peoples; = Old Saxon liud, plural liudī = OFries. liod, plural liode, liude = D. plural lieden = Middle Low German lūt, plural lūde = Old High German Middle High German luit, Old High German plural liutī, Middle High German plural liute, German leute, plural; in singular a people, in plural people, men; Old Bulgarian ljudŭ, a people, plural ljudije, people, = Bohemian lid, plural lide = Polish lud, plural ludzie = Russian liudŭ, a people, plural liudi, people (cf. Old Bulgarian ljudinŭ, Russian liudĭ, man), = Old Prussian ludis, man, master, = Lettish laudis, people; from the verb represented by Anglo-Saxon leódan (preterit *leád, plural ludon, past participle *loden) = Old Saxon liodan = Old High German *liutan, in comp. ar-liutan, fram-liutan = Goth, liudan, grow, whence also Goth, lauths, great (in hwēlauths, how great, swalauths, so great, samalauths, as great, like, juggalauths, a young man), also ludja, face.
 

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