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news⋅break

[nooz-breyk, nyooz-]
–noun
1. a newsworthy event or incident.
2. Radio and Television. a station break that consists typically of two or three short news items.

Origin:
1950–55; news + break
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news·break   (nōōz'brāk', nyōōz'-)   
n.   In both senses also called news flash.
  1. An urgent or immediate item of news.

  2. The act or an instance of interrupting previously scheduled radio or television programming in order to report a newsworthy event or story.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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