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lede
[ leed ]
noun
- Journalism.
- a short summary serving as an introduction to a news story, article, or other copy.
- the main and often most important news story.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lede1
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Example Sentences
Either the Times buried the lede, or the perils of “oversharing” is the lede.
That can mean rewriting wire copy to put the part most embarrassing to Democrats in the lede.
And another story today at the Jewish Press, under a credulous headline, admitted the story might not be right in its lede.
The buried lede in this intriguing story on how Tyrannosaurus Rex consumed its legendary prey?
Enrico Caruso, August 3, 1921--above the fold, the off-lede, as we call it, on the far left-hand column.
And lede e nether figure stonde still euer-more til ou haue ydo.
That is openede thus; lede the rote of o quadrat into the rote of the oer quadrat, and an wolle e meene shew.
The point of land near the house of Lede, just below Drontheim.
Her bones were closid in lede, and withyn that bones were closyd yn lether.
Geta lede hrewic heldon, the Getas held the place of corpses (lay dead upon it), 1215; pret.
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