How to Use newswire in a Sentence

newswire

noun
Definition of newswirenext
  • Williams said at a Purple Purse event, according to the newswire.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 21 June 2018
  • Gas prices in Pyongyang have spiked by about 20% in the past two months, according to the newswire Agence France Presse.
    — Jonathan Kaiman, latimes.com, 23 Sep. 2017
  • No telling whether those are truly accurate figures — but all have been published with sources on the newswires.
    — Ed Wallace, star-telegram, 8 June 2018
  • Wilder's ouster, and the newswire's lack of candor about its cause, has caused a rare uproar inside the storied news organization.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 24 May 2021
  • The Mossos have been ordered to take down photos of Puigdemont from their police stations, Efe newswire reported.
    — Rodrigo Orihuela, Bloomberg.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • Or, at least, that part of its name implying the firehose of information obtained from something like a newswire.
    — Andy Meek, Forbes, 9 Apr. 2022
  • Salvini, who heads the center-right alliance and the euroskeptic League party, said according to newswire Ansa.
    — Bloomberg.com, 9 Apr. 2018
  • When this latest study hit the newswire, dozens of concerned Nutrition Diva listeners reached out to me for comment.
    — Nutrition Diva Monica Reinagel, Scientific American, 29 July 2019
  • Turner, 83, passed away Wednesday, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, her manager told the newswire service.
    — Justin Ray, Robb Report, 25 May 2023
  • The newswires show her looking incredibly chic and put-together.
    — Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2019
  • Each is a silo, a dedicated newswire not meant for commenting or sharing.
    — Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The internet and newswires were awash with pictures and videos of citizens sitting on the ground being bludgeoned with batons and whipped by police officers.
    — Evan Mawarire, Time, 23 Aug. 2019
  • Russian state newswire Tass has since reported that Zvegintsev was detained last month and is under house arrest.
    — Francesca Ebel, Washington Post, 17 May 2023
  • The Asian actress, identified by the newswire as Lou Naiming, was also decked out in a traditional outfit, complete with a large, fake butt and blackface makeup.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 22 Feb. 2018
  • The historic site is surrounded by notices advising onlookers not to touch, climb or use it as a water source, Lex Jones told newswire Storyful.
    — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 16 Aug. 2023
  • A Chinese government newswire recently covered the launch of a shared washing machine service.
    — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 18 Aug. 2017
  • For now the officer remains on administrative leave and faces an internal department review of the shooting, the newswire notes.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 10 Aug. 2017
  • The newswire talked to several experts who expressed concern that the truck’s stiff stainless-steel exoskeleton could hurt passengers and cyclists, as well as cause damage to other vehicles.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Dec. 2023
  • The Associated Press is a newswire of record, structured as a nonprofit, supplying news alerts, analysis and other building blocks of news coverage to outlets around the world.
    — Brian Stelter, CNN, 1 Sep. 2021
  • Later, violence erupted between law enforcement and about 3,000 far-right activists, the DPA newswire reported.
    — Andrew Davis, Bloomberg.com, 29 Aug. 2020
  • The magazine draws heavily from newswire photos and stock images — many with no connection to Saudi Arabia, according to Tineye, a reverse-image search tool.
    — Washington Post, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Stacker, a newswire, hired Twitter’s Miriam Daub as director of business operations.
    — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 25 Apr. 2022
  • There was also speculation that Lee had taken drugs together with the offspring of the head of an industrial conglomerate named by the police, but, on Monday, the actor’s attorney said through a local newswire that Lee does not know them.
    — Park Soo-Mee, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Watermarking is commonly used by picture agencies and newswires to prevent images from being used without permission—and payment.
    — WIRED, 27 July 2023
  • From its earliest days, Twitter distinguished itself from other social media platforms because of its strengths as a modern-day newswire and its reputation as a public chat room for journalists.
    — Alexandra Sternlicht, Fortune, 22 Aug. 2023
  • The newswire notes that the teen will be sent to a secure, residential treatment program for juvenile delinquents and, upon her release, will face additional supervision and programs until age 19, followed by two more years of probation.
    — Breanna Edwards, The Root, 6 June 2017
  • According to South Korean newswire Yonhap, one of the deceased was a 63-year-old nursing home resident with cerebrovascular disease, who died after showing symptoms of blood poisoning and pneumonia.
    — Siladitya Ray, Forbes, 3 Mar. 2021
  • To maximize online exposure, press releases are distributed via newswires.
    — Andrea Aker, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The company plans to build a local newswire sourced from Philadelphia public records data and then use natural language generation technology to convert the data into narrative news briefs.
    — Jeff Gammage, Philly.com, 21 Sep. 2017
  • His specialized media approach — including manipulable online data feeds, a global newswire, and extensive magazine and broadcast outlets — have turned the business of business news upside down.
    — Polina Marinova, Fortune, 22 June 2018

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