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masthead

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


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Outside the masthead of The Atlantic, no one better represents this political tendency better than James Carville.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 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

A reminder of this can be seen in the top masthead of the Belfast Telegraph which informed readers of the black-out times to abide by.

From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024

But Ifemelu was full of sanguine expectations for The Small Redemptions of Lagos, with a dreamy photograph of an abandoned colonial house on its masthead.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Open AI will be allowed to display content from News Corp. mastheads in response to user questions and to enhance its products.

From Seattle Times ● May 23, 2024

And Raphael Nash Thompson has an amusing scene, playing a bohemian painter who comes up with eccentric mock-ups of newspaper mastheads.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023

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

Soon after two o’clock, this occurred when the mastheads with the tips of white sails arose over the horizon.

From The Adventures of the U-202 An Actual Narrative by E. Spiegel

All the same though, the sails were all loosed in about a minute, it seemed, and the yards mastheaded.

From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

And in this stretch of ocean, lookouts were mastheaded at day-dawn and kept mastheaded until twilight of evening, when the Mary Turner was hove-to, to hold her position through the night. 

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

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 a trice, it would seem, her three topsails were mastheaded and the foretopsail laid to the mast.

From Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes

Under the lee of the stone warehouse, on the solidity of the wharf, the land, Roger Brevard watched the Nautilus while one by one the topsails were sheeted home and the yards mastheaded.

From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer




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