masthead
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“You could still kind of make out the word Wired across the top of the masthead and something about that just blew me away,” Cooley says.
From Los Angeles Times ● 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
And even if you can’t make the meetings, you’ll come to know your local paper’s masthead.
From Salon ● Dec. 3, 2025
On Tuesday, Baidu ran photos and video testimonials to the players under the masthead “I’ve lost my very best friends.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 24, 2023
With a practiced eye he glanced from the masthead to the bottom of the sheet.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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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 attendant ships carried bright lanterns at their mastheads, sometimes throwing up signal rockets; and so the convoy swept steadily on through the darkness, the Elba still following in the wake of the Monzambano.
From Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. by Thomas Forester
The other sloops then mastheaded their topsails, and the schooners peaked their gaffs.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 29, March, 1860 by Various
Your yards stay mastheaded mostly by force o' habit, hey?
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
In a trice, it would seem, her three topsails were mastheaded and the foretopsail laid to the mast.
From Doubloons—and the Girl by John Maxwell Forbes
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
“You shan’t be mastheaded for that;” and he clapped the young officer merrily on the back.
From The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
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