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leading article

[ lee-ding ]

noun

, Journalism.
  1. Also called leader. the most important or prominent news story in a newspaper.


leading article

/ ˈliːdɪŋ /

noun

  1. another term for leader
  2. the article given most prominence in a magazine or newspaper
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of leading article1

First recorded in 1800–10
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Example Sentences

I am very glad to find that you wrote the leading article, which I had doubted, as there was no significant hand.

Now the London "Times" came out with a leading article which produced a profound sensation throughout England.

He dragged in by the nape of the neck, as it were, tirades whose proper place had been in a leading article.

It contained an account of his arrest, and a leading article on his career as a thing380 closed and ruined.

She stops in the middle of a leading article and looks with a careworn face at the happy cat.

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