masthead
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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
On Tuesday, Baidu ran photos and video testimonials to the players under the masthead “I’ve lost my very best friends.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
I threw the blanket over the lines again, with the new girdle string going around the masthead.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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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
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
And, unlike some other names atop glossy mastheads, Peoples Wagner gives her almost 100,000 Instagram followers a peek behind the curtain.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 2, 2020
There’s no record of mastheads past—except in the few remaining copies of Slate on Paper.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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
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