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tabloid

[tab-loid] / ˈtæb lɔɪd /
NOUN
newspaper
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The New York Post tabloid described her as "visibly nervous."

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2026

A gritty throwback to print journalism: Danny Boyle’s new film, Ink, depicts Rupert Murdoch’s takeover of the Sun, turning it into the United Kingdom’s top tabloid paper.

From Slate ● Sep. 23, 2026

It’s the same reason that in the newspaper world, they would put things on tabloid front pages that you would never do today.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

Earl Spencer depicts her as a caring, generous character who was haunted by self-doubt, dogged by eating disorders, lacking in warmth from her new royal family and then ultimately dragged down by the tabloid media.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

A camera crew from the tabloid television program Hard Copy ambushed her outside her apartment.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

Thrust into the limelight, tabloids snapped photos of him travelling and with his new wife Rachel Danis.

From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026

Sightings that would have once been dismissed as hoaxes or covered by supermarket tabloids are now “respectfully discussed in the mainstream press and on the floor of Congress.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

There is plenty of scope for awkward potential snubs for the tabloids to feast on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026

Prince Harry, who relocates back to Britain shortly with his family, will open a new chapter in his ever-eventful life which once seemed improbable amid royal feuds, battles over security and lawsuits against UK tabloids.

From Barron's ● Aug. 23, 2026

Supermarket tabloids never provide an end-of-year list of false predictions by psychics, nor do the more upscale New Age periodicals, which, despite a veneer of sophistication, are just as fatuous.

From "Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences" by John Allen Paulos




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