tabloid press
collocation in Englishmeaningsoftabloidandpress
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tabloid
adjective
noun[C]
uk/ˈtæb.lɔɪd/us/ˈtæb.lɔɪd/
(of or relating to) a type of popular newspaper with small pages that has many pictures and short, ...
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press
noun
uk/pres/us/pres/
newspapers and magazines, and those parts of television and radio that broadcast news, or reporters and photographers who work ...
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(Definition oftabloidandpressfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesoftabloid press
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If any one of them steps outside the political space allowed to them by thetabloidpress, it can do it to them.
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Thetabloidpressoften acts as an agent of the state.
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Just popular emotion, exploited savagely by thetabloidpress.
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It is clearly frustrated that so often thetabloidpressis left to be the vehicle for the expression of public opinion.
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This is not a response to thetabloidpressin any way.
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Thatcherism, on the other hand, receives a much fuller treatment, thetabloidpressbeing a particular target.
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In some cases, stance - not to say bias - is explicitly stated, as in thetabloidpressthat supplies ideologically-oriented discourse analysts with much of their raw material.
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That puts the problem of commission in a different light from that generally shown by thetabloidpress.
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It is a comprehensive issue—it does not relate only to the one issue that thetabloidpresswants to raise.
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The second principle used to be somewhat more controversial, at least in thetabloidpress.
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The lampooning has not been confined to thetabloidpress.
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Thetabloidpressdoes everything in its power to exploit that feeling.
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I was appalled and wondered what thetabloidpresswould make of the suggestion.
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I should not want to see them exploited in thetabloidpress.
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Does he not understand that that is how thetabloidpresswill interpret them?
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I believe that certain elements of thetabloidpressare totally unscrupulous.
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I have been described in thetabloidpressas a titled tipster.
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In due course the leaders of thetabloidpressbecome ennobled.
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Secondly, it leaves the market open to predatory multinational ownership of precisely the kind that we see in thetabloidpress.
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Imagine the headlines in thetabloidpressif 50,000 children were injured in a football stadium in one day.
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