news flash

Example Sentences

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Nothing about the very obvious messages here—about colonialism, religious fanaticism, institutionalized violence and the exploitation of native peoples—amounts to a news flash.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026

Much of the recent coverage about Russia and Ukraine reminds me of that Afghan news flash in 1987.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 26, 2025

To the millions who greedily gobbled up scuttlebutt about her legendary meanness over the years, this is far from a news flash.

From Salon • Oct. 30, 2024

Here’s a news flash: These supposedly binding offers do not, in fact, oblige you to attend.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2021

In Seattle a news flash from Oakland interrupted regular radio programming, and people who had been sitting dejectedly by the radio stood up and slapped each other on the back and shook hands.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown