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masthead

[mast-hed, mahst-] / ˈmæstˌhɛd, ˈmɑst- /


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And, yes, it does cheekily employ its own famous masthead as part of the very special effect.

From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026

More than a year after he bought the Times, Soon-Shiong met with masthead editors, discussing the paper’s plans over Chinese takeout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

The lowest name on her entertainment magazine’s masthead, Ariel hopes that writing about famous people will get some of their shine to bounce back on her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

Even more humiliating for the storied masthead, the AI articles were riddled with errors.

From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024

The masthead listed all the workers on the paper.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

These death-haunted predecessors give a surprising new sheen to another major Cubist motif: the newspaper, sometimes painted and sometimes pasted, whose mastheads and headlines collide with tables and slide into wine bottles.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

He wrote: "Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

Collectively, the South Jersey Times, Courier Post and Daily Journal list a total of 13 news reporters on their mastheads, covering a four-county region that has a population of just over 1 million.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

Both mastheads have been put on notice by the state’s chief prosecutor.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 28, 2019

The men from the mastheads and the fo'c's'le and all about the deck jumped to their places at the boats to wait the command to lower.

From The Sea Bride by Ben Ames Williams

Your yards stay mastheaded mostly by force o' habit, hey?

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Then came the order for the t'gallantsail, and by the time that was mastheaded, the skipper followed with orders for royals, fore and aft.

From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains

Tail on again, my hearties, and let us get this yard mastheaded, then our heavy work will be done for the present.

From Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship by W. Herbert Holloway

In the fork, like a mastheaded seaman, there stood a man in a green tabard, spying far and wide The two lads stood looking at each other.

From The Black Arrow A Tale of the Two Roses by Robert Louis Stevenson

The other sloops then mastheaded their topsails, and the schooners peaked their gaffs.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various




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