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masthead

[mast-hed, mahst-] / ˈmæstˌhɛd, ˈmɑst- /


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Outside the masthead of The Atlantic, no one better represents this political tendency better than James Carville.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

His impending exit was first reported by The Australian, and confirmed by the Sydney Morning Herald, a masthead owned by Nine.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026

More than a year after he bought the Times, Soon-Shiong met with masthead editors, discussing the paper’s plans over Chinese takeout.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

The lowest name on her entertainment magazine’s masthead, Ariel hopes that writing about famous people will get some of their shine to bounce back on her.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 28, 2025

I threw the blanket over the lines again, with the new girdle string going around the masthead.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel

Some of these jobs have begun to go extinct, at least on official mastheads.

From Slate ● Apr. 12, 2023

These death-haunted predecessors give a surprising new sheen to another major Cubist motif: the newspaper, sometimes painted and sometimes pasted, whose mastheads and headlines collide with tables and slide into wine bottles.

From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

He wrote: "Like other mastheads do every day, we simply asked questions and as standard practice included a deadline for a response."

From BBC ● Jun. 13, 2022

Collectively, the South Jersey Times, Courier Post and Daily Journal list a total of 13 news reporters on their mastheads, covering a four-county region that has a population of just over 1 million.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 10, 2021

The ships, too, hoisted their colours to the mastheads, while the Golden Hope fired seven guns by way of a salute.

From The Quest of the 'Golden Hope' A Seventeenth Century Story of Adventure by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

Under the lee of the stone warehouse, on the solidity of the wharf, the land, Roger Brevard watched the Nautilus while one by one the topsails were sheeted home and the yards mastheaded.

From Java Head by Joseph Hergesheimer

All the same though, the sails were all loosed in about a minute, it seemed, and the yards mastheaded.

From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson

And in this stretch of ocean, lookouts were mastheaded at day-dawn and kept mastheaded until twilight of evening, when the Mary Turner was hove-to, to hold her position through the night. 

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

That boy ought to be mastheaded, and I've told Perez so more'n once.

From Cap'n Eri by Joseph Crosby Lincoln

Tail on again, my hearties, and let us get this yard mastheaded, then our heavy work will be done for the present.

From Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship by W. Herbert Holloway




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