masthead
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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
Even The National Herald, founded by India's first prime minister and Indira Gandhi's father Jawaharlal Nehru, quietly dropped its masthead slogan: "Freedom is in peril, defend it with all your might."
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2025
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
Even more humiliating for the storied masthead, the AI articles were riddled with errors.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2024
The masthead listed all the workers on the paper.
From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements
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The paper published nine editions and listed 17 reporters on its early mastheads.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 20, 2023
And Raphael Nash Thompson has an amusing scene, playing a bohemian painter who comes up with eccentric mock-ups of newspaper mastheads.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 27, 2023
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
There’s no record of mastheads past—except in the few remaining copies of Slate on Paper.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2016
Her height to the mastheads is two hundred sixteen feet; each of her three anchors weighs ten tons; and her funnels are so large that a trolley car could easily run through them.
From Great Inventions and Discoveries by Willis Duff Piercy
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
I'll not speak of it as spiled, though a prettier and a better bit of bunting was never mastheaded.
From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell
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
Your yards stay mastheaded mostly by force o' habit, hey?
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
Then came the order for the t'gallantsail, and by the time that was mastheaded, the skipper followed with orders for royals, fore and aft.
From Mr. Trunnell, Mate of the Ship "Pirate" by T. Jenkins (Thornton Jenkins) Hains
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The Landry News
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