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spot news

NOUN
sound bite
Synonyms
STRONGEST
blurb clip excerpt one-liner quotation slogan snippet
WEAK
buzzword fifteen minutes of fame news item newsbreak notation note outtake passage photo opportunity piece quote saying selection

Example Sentences

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Those stories also earned the New York Press Club's 2021 award for spot news and an honorable mention from the Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 24, 2026

If spot news occurs when I’m on vacation or out to dinner, I always have a quality camera to capture news.

From Seattle Times • Jun. 27, 2022

"I do a little bit of everything, but primarily I work on human interest stories and not a lot of spot news stories."

From Fox News • Sep. 10, 2021

During an earlier stint in Washington in the 1990s, she was AP’s assistant bureau chief for news, running spot news coverage and overseeing the foreign affairs and national security beats.

From Washington Post • May 11, 2021

The front office thought the radio car would give us a break in spot news coverage, and I guessed as wrong as they did.

From The Day of the Boomer Dukes by Emshwiller, Ed

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.