press release

noun
a statement prepared and distributed to the press by a public relations firm, governmental agency, etc.
Also called news release, release.


Origin:
1955–60

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press release
 
n
an official announcement or account of a news item circulated to the press

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Press release is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
Example sentences
Then she turned around and issued a press release, demanding to know why the
  columnist was publishing smears.
Probably reflecting the wording in the press release.
And you can't read that press release and not come away thinking they're biased.
But convincing other paleontologists is going to be a lot harder than getting
  his press release into a bunch of news outlets.
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