tabloid
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- noun
- /ˈtæb.lɔɪd/
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periódico sensacionalista
- The tabloid published scandalous details about the politician's private life.
- tabloid newspapers
- tabloid story
- tabloid journalism
And the media, especially the media in the UK, the tabloids then just destroyed her.
- And the media, especially the media in the UK, the tabloids then just destroyed her.
- Here are some screenshots of some emails I've sent to a tabloid newspaper.
- So after winning that, the British press, Speaking of tabloids, got hold of it.
- And what we have is the most powerful publisher of a supermarket tabloid sits in the Oval Office.
- I'd just gone to Lillyshaw and it was a front page of a tabloid.
- There's an article out there in the tabloids right now about an Indian actress who passed away.
- How did your research change as you moved away from history books and more into things that are recent tabloid events like Diana's death?
- Donald Trump colluded with his lawyer and a publisher of a major tabloid to buy and bury stories.
- Weiltenstein was heavily featured in tabloids for her spending habits and her extensive cosmetic surgeries that landed her with the nickname Catwoman.
- The, the, this is what the tabloids do best.
- This is the, the, the, the tabloids.
- It is not what you see in the papers, the tabloids, CNN or the quitter on the documentary.
- But no institution can stop the churn and burn of news of the tabloids.
- And so he's always in like Teen Vogue or like all of those like pop sugar tabloid magazines and stuff.
Examples
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There's an article out there in the tabloids right now about an Indian actress who passed away.
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It's in all the tabloids.
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And, you know, then it gets put through the the machine of say, a tabloid magazine or a blog.
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"With all due respect," Rick said, "that sounds like a bunch of tabloid speculation to me."
Fiction book (1996) -
It's it's not like some tabloid that you can just easily dismiss.
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Because rock stars were involved, the trial was extremely public, and the tabloids had a field day.
Academic text (2000) -
Yesterday at Food Lion, she saw this tabloid headline: I watched aliens clean my kitchen.
Fiction book (1991) -
On the cover of one of the tabloids is a photograph of him.
Fiction book (1994) -
Yesterday's Central Park murder had made the front page of the tabloids and the local morning news.
Fiction book (1992) -
You obviously don't read the tabloids
Synonyms
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A printed paper that has news, stories, and ads
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A small newspaper with short pages that focuses on local news
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A cheap magazine printed on rough paper with exciting stories
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A cheap newspaper with flashy, low-quality stories
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A newspaper that focuses on gossip and scandal
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Newspapers or magazines that print scandal stories and invade people's privacy to sell more copies
How Sensational
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Surface Forms
Etymology
Tabloid began as a word for a small, compressed tablet, meaning a 'pill'. Writers then used the idea of something being 'small and packed' for short, packed stories, and so the word came to mean a small newspaper full of gossip and exciting or shocking news.