masthead
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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
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
All twenty-three kids in Mr. Larson’s afternoon class had wanted their names in the masthead, and each had done something to help get the Guardian pulled together in record time.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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The paper published nine editions and listed 17 reporters on its early mastheads.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
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
Front office mastheads are swollen with key executives.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2021
I immediately ordered flags set at all three mastheads, a signal for all boats to come on board under any and all circumstances.
From Bark Kathleen Sunk By A Whale by Thomas H. Jenkins
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
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
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
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
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