Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paragraph in a feature story or essay, as in a newspaper or magazine, that summarizes the most important facts.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[nut(shell para)graph.]
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Examples
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“The honeymoon is over,” Dwinell begins and loads his nutgraph with words like “stumbled” and “crippled.”
Current Comedy, 3/25/09: Math for the Man in the Middle 2009
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One problem is that the Journal says as fact in the nutgraph that the "GTS unit is so deeply intertwined with the rest of Citigroup that splitting the unit off would leave some governments and companies in the lurch."
CJR 2010
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