byline
Use Byline in a sentence
verb (used with object)
2.
to accompany with a byline: Was the newspaper report bylined or was it anonymous?
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Word Origin & History
byline
1926, "line giving the name of the writer of an article in a newspaper or magazine;" they typically read BY ________.
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Byline
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is bowdlerise. Does it mean:
| to expurgate (a written work) by removing or modifying passages considered vulgar or objectionable. |
| to spend time idly; loaf. |
Example sentences
While they were making a conventional truck, they mentioned as a byline that they are also now making hybrid trucks.
Neither version of the article has a byline or any kind of author credit but one is clearly modified from the other.
Henceforth the byline matters, unusually so in our case.
She wrote up some of his notes so well that he wanted to publish them under her byline.
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