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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Inexpensive paper made from wood pulp and used chiefly for printing newspapers.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An inexpensive paper used for printing newspapers

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun cheap paper made from wood pulp and used for printing newspapers

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Examples

  • There's hardly room in newsprint, however, for the number of words it takes to clearly explain a situation or argument sufficiently, especially when the idea seems counterintuitive.

    Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11? Coleen Rowley 2010

  • There's hardly room in newsprint, however, for the number of words it takes to clearly explain a situation or argument sufficiently, especially when the idea seems counterintuitive.

    Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11? Coleen Rowley 2010

  • Newsweeklies were intended to be counterprogramming to newspapers, back when we were drowning in newsprint and needed a digest to redact that vast inflow of dead-tree objectivity.

    The Newsweekly’s Last Stand 2009

  • Papers are throwing out employees almost weekly, cutting national and foreign bureaus if they have them, and slicing the actual size of the product, since newsprint is a huge cost.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • Meanwhile, the price of newsprint is skyrocketing, despite declining demand.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • There's hardly room in newsprint, however, for the number of words it takes to clearly explain a situation or argument sufficiently, especially when the idea seems counterintuitive.

    Coleen Rowley: Could WikiLeaks Have Helped Thwart 9/11? Coleen Rowley 2010

  • Meanwhile, the price of newsprint is skyrocketing, despite declining demand.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • How doe the print media react when they try to imitate TV or web-pages in newsprint?

    July 13th, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Papers are throwing out employees almost weekly, cutting national and foreign bureaus if they have them, and slicing the actual size of the product, since newsprint is a huge cost.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

  • Meanwhile, the price of newsprint is skyrocketing, despite declining demand.

    When No News Is Bad News 2009

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