to make news
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3.4
- phrasal verb
- /meɪk nuz/
- Literature
:
salir en las noticias
- Almost immediately, he made news by exposing the rampant bribery and extortion in the legislature.
- story made news
- made news today
- made news recently
Tweets will make news, Tweets will decide the headlines of stories.
- Tweets will make news, Tweets will decide the headlines of stories.
- I, I could have sworn that probably would have made news.
- You know people just it just does not make news.
- And yet the strategy seems to be don't make news.
- And but one of the things that's making news now speaks to some media bias, I think.
- Next point, her attempts at making news Slash getting people to talk about her slash doing shocking things are not calculated.
Examples
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Henry Ford II was known for making news whenever he appeared in public.
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Only in recent years has this feminine presence begun to make news.
Academic text (1993) -
"In that case, why did you need to make news out of a nobody like me?"
Fiction book (2002) -
I think we have more people covering news than making news these days.
Fiction book (2002) -
Presumably, this is gonna make news.
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Here is a classic case of mainstream media not making news available when it is discovered.
Blog text (28) -
All week long, I have been thinking about the reverse discrimination case currently making news in Alabama.
Blog text (24) -
By now, the Greensboro sit-in has made news nationwide.
Fiction book (2002) -
The jurors' statements made news, and soon other juries in similar cases were refusing to convict.
Academic text (2001) -
Last week, George H.W. Bush made news when he endorsed Mitt Romney.
Synonyms
61
3.8
To spread very quickly online and reach many people
56
2.8
Information becomes known to many people
40
3.2
To get a lot of attention in the news
11
3.9
Get a lot of attention in an exciting way
6
4.0
Make people feel excited or upset and attract attention
1
5.1
Become the main focus of people's attention after doing something important
Antonyms
How Newsworthy
- Texting
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3.8
- Literature
40
3.2
- Literature
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3.4
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'to become the subject of news reports' is directly derivable from combining 'make' (to cause) with 'news' (reported information) — i.e. to cause something to be news. This follows a regular English 'make + noun' compositional pattern (and has parallels in other languages), so a B1 learner who knows both words should be able to infer the meaning.
Etymology
Make news comes from newspapers long ago, when reporters would make a news story by writing and printing it. That's why to make news now means 'to be written about' or 'to get public attention'.