lede

or lead

[ leed ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Journalism.
1. a short summary serving as an introduction to a news story, article, or other copy.
2. the main and often most important news story.

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Word History and Origins

Origin of lede¹

First recorded in 1950–55; altered spelling of lead ¹( def ) (in the journalism sense “short introductory summary”), used in the printing trades to distinguish it from the homograph lead ²( def ) (in the sense “thin strip of type metal for increasing the space between lines of type”)

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Five years ago, that was the tortured lede of the column that was published in the immediate wake of Bryant’s death.

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Amnesty’s report, titled “ ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza,” buried the lede, as journalists say.

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The lede was ‘To Russia without love,’ and then I wrote a sidebar, ‘My One-Round Fight With Mike Tyson.’

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While actors may not have been able to market the film due to the SAG-AFTRA strike, the promotion for the movie buried the real lede: the tainted history and shortcomings of Captain Marvel.

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So in that sense the vice president buried the lede.

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