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tab

1 9.0
A newspaper that focuses on gossip and scandal
  • noun
  • /tæb/
  • Literature
translation icon : prensa sensacionalista
  • Next to this another tab: "JEW KILLS JEW?"
  • entertainment tab
  • Keeping tabs

Examples

  • Check the "Admissions Receptions: International" tab to see more details.

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  • The project involved equipping a 5th-grade class of 27 students with 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab devices at a cost of around $200 per student.

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  • You have the biggest tab, but a customer actually pays.

  • Changing our values is like changing a trim-tab that can put us on a new course that takes us to destinations.

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  • After six months of planning and focus groups, the paper launched "JumpStart," a Monday tab with community features, "news you can use" and personality profiles.

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  • Which means this isn't a normal Sf tab movie.

  • Tab came home from work, Kiki (Tab's friend who had never been to the fair before) arrived, Lou changed, and they all left within minutes to go back to the fair.

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  • A kid facing a horrific tab—based on the earnings capacity of an engineering major—won't have that luxury.

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  • But In Touch's track record is not one of tremendous insight into Pattinson's inner thoughts; it's one of sensationalism, like when the tab falsely claimed Katy Perry was after the actor last spring.

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  • The gossip magazine is known for its sensationalist tab articles about celebrities.

Synonyms

tabloid
vstab
  • Literature
188 3.7

A small newspaper or magazine that tells gossip and exciting stories about people

is informal sensational journalism rather than a particular newspaper size
yellow journalism
vstab
  • Literature
2 5.2

Reporting that exaggerates and uses shocking stories to attract readers while ignoring the truth

focuses more on gossip and trivial stories rather than on ethical disregard

Compounds

tab key
  • Specialized
1 2.3

A key on a keyboard that moves the cursor to the right to indent or align text

How Sensational

yellow press
  • Literature
7.1
tab
  • Literature
1 9.0
reporting
  • Literature
241 2.5

Surface Forms

tab singular
tabs plural

Etymology

Tab meaning sensational news is short for tabloid, the word for small, gossip-style newspapers, so a 'tab' often refers to papers that focus on scandal and gossip.