newspaper account
Example Sentences
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Using a 1939 newspaper account, Moses pictured an 1862 fire that ravished the city in upstate New York.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
According to a newspaper account in 1920, the purebred ram was “forceful and strategic,” often charging White House staff and police.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 28, 2022
According to a newspaper account, no one took a Yugo.
From New York Times • Jun. 10, 2021
An inflammatory newspaper account stirred up the white community and crowds gathered outside the courthouse.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2019
It was an old newspaper account of a fire from a small-town weekly.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
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