in the news
149
2.7
- idiom
- Literature
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en las noticias
- Why have you been in the news so much recently?
- appear in the news
- reported in the news
- in the news media
You know, everything in the news is just dismal.
- You know, everything in the news is just dismal.
- The so-called act of sexting has been in the news a few times this week.
- But that's, you know, that's for you to read in the news in the coming weeks and months.
- Why would they even want anything in the news at all?
- But yeah, let's start off with science in the news.
- You hear in the news many, many people have been killed.
- But when we come back, Johnny Cash is back in the news for a reason that may surprise you.
- So the one that is not up behind me that is often in the news is CAR T cell therapy.
- And their country is not just what we see or hear in the news.
- You see, our boy Bad Babooni is in the news again.
Examples
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Can you name three countries that were in the news last week?
Academic text (1995) -
Today Somalia, as many of you have heard in the news, is known for many things.
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We see it happen in the news all the time.
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Feels like this will be in the news in a few days.
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- Did you see the piece in the news - about the letters?
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We hear a lot in the news about an Arab Spring.
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Looks like our old friend Ben Gates is in the news again.
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So Blackstone Group has been very much in the news recently.
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Well, there's just been so much of this sort of thing in the news lately.
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As you all know, domestic violence has been in the news lately.
Antonyms
How Newsworthy
- Literature
15
2.7
- Literature
26
3.4
- Literature
149
2.7
- Formal
4
4.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'being reported in newspapers, on television, or by other media' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'in' (located within) + 'the' (definite article) + 'news' (media-reported information). This compositional pattern is common across languages (e.g., Spanish 'en las noticias') and would be immediately understandable to a B1 learner who knows the constituent words.
Etymology
In the news comes from the simple image of a person's name or story actually printed in newspapers or shown on TV. So if you are literally in the news, you are 'being reported' by the media right now.