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masthead

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


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“You could still kind of make out the word Wired across the top of the masthead and something about that just blew me away,” Cooley says.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 24, 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

And even if you can’t make the meetings, you’ll come to know your local paper’s masthead.

From Salon Dec. 3, 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

She thought about the masthead of that paper.

From "Stella by Starlight" by Sharon M. Draper

Some of these jobs have begun to go extinct, at least on official mastheads.

From Slate Apr. 12, 2023

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

Front office mastheads are swollen with key executives.

From New York Times Sep. 28, 2021

The Tyee's slanted mastheads seemed to rake through the latter, and she was wet everywhere; but she was still hammering to windward with bows that swung up streaming over the long seas.

From Thrice Armed by Harold Bindloss

That boy ought to be mastheaded, and I've told Perez so more'n once.

From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

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

I'll not speak of it as spiled, though a prettier and a better bit of bunting was never mastheaded.

From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell

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

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




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