headline writer
collocation in Englishmeaningsofheadlineandwriter
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headline
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈhed.laɪn/us/ˈhed.laɪn/
a headline amount, number, or rate is the most important one or the one that people ...
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writer
noun[C]
uk/ˈraɪ.tər/us/ˈraɪ.t̬ɚ/
a person who writes books or articles to ...
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(Definition ofheadlineandwriterfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Theheadlinewriterread only the first paragraph and understood it to mean that he was resigning (= quitting), so he substituted 'retire' in the headline.
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I hope that we can get over to the media the message about the importance of getting these details, small as they are to aheadlinewriter, absolutely correct.
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The report went a long way beyond what he said, and theheadlinewriterwent a great deal further.
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Alas, the media and headline writers like to go for the dark side.
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Headline writers will always have a field day.
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Editors of the tabloids should take a grip on their headline writers.
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I mean also, curiously enough, the headline writers in some of our most respected newspapers.
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If a cataclysm did come, for the doomwatchers and the headline writers to rub their hands, it would be too late for any of us to do anything about it.
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Although it is helpful, it does not reveal the cataclysmic state of affairs in which the spin doctors and headline writers have invited us to believe.
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Therefore, we need to be careful about using the material provided by headline writers, serious though some of those incidents may be, to make a wider point.
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It is thuggery equalled only by the thuggishness of the headline writers of some of the popular newspapers.
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So depressing was the picture that the newspaper headline writers—not always the most enthusiastic or cheerful of characters—heralded the shipyard's closure as a very real possibility.
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I welcome the fact that it is a fairly wordy document, because it addresses the needs of the sports community rather than sports headline writers.
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We are anxious that we should not inadvertently make it more difficult to unmask what the headline writers in the popular press would call "traitors in high places".
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After a few years that was shortened, perhaps by reporters or headline writers.
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The only trouble with the vote was that its result was not binding on headline writers.
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