(n) A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
(n) Something strange or newly happened.
(n) A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
(2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
(3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
(4) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
(5) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
(6) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
(7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
(8) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
(9) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
(10) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
(11) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
(12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
(13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
(14) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
(15) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
(16) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
(17) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
(18) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(19) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
(20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.
Riddance
Definition:
(n.) The act of ridding or freeing; deliverance; a cleaning up or out.
(n.) The state of being rid or free; freedom; escape.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dunu Roy, of the respected Hazards Centre, which supplies research to Indian NGOs, said his reaction to the news was "good riddance".
(2) One group, Maggie's Good Riddance Party, claims it will hold a "right jolly knees-up" outside St Paul's Cathedral on the day of the funeral and calls on people to turn their back on the procession as it passes by.
(3) The HDS apparently represent the fraction concerned with the efflux of cholesterol from the tissues, so that higher levels may represent a heightened cholesterol-riddance mechanism.
(4) TV montage music for the season's highlights Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day.
(5) One such group, Maggie's Good Riddance Party, plans to hold a "right jolly knees-up" outside St Paul's Cathedral.
(6) Ultimately money may be purely a mean that finally (harking back to its symbolic body origin) will be fully separated from the self in acts of riddance and gifting that vary from exercising power to loving bestowal (Kolb), and from jealous greed to generosity.
(7) When the Olympics finally come to an end, and BBC1 runs its inevitable montage of highlights set to Good Riddance (Time Of Your Life) by Green Day , it is worth betting that a vast chunk of it will be set aside for the starmaking, medal-winning turn from Great Britain's male gymnasts on Monday evening.
(8) The move has sharply divided opinion – a dark day says Stuart Jefferies and Lionel Shriver , a good riddance says James Randerson and Lucy Siegle .
(9) But I get these old biddies coming in and saying [adopts faltering Old Biddy voice], 'Ooh, I won't be coming back' and I'm, like, good riddance!"
(10) Good riddance,” a reporter sneered while another grumbled about the England international who was meant to inspire Toronto to their first play-off appearance.
(11) Omar Jamal, the first secretary in the Somali mission to the UN, issued an emailed statement that said: "Good riddance, and [I] hope al-Shabaab leadership will come to their senses and cease the hostility in Somalia."
(12) The Guardian view on scrapping the UK’s non-dom loophole: good riddance | Editorial Read more “The correct belief in enterprise and wealth creation,” Miliband is expected to argue, “has become distorted into an idea that wealth only flows from a few at the top – and they are so important that they should be allowed to operate under different rules.
(13) Put him in jail and good riddance!” Since the Boston bombings, Chechen migrants in the US say there has been a new hostility towards them, and rights activists say it is now harder for Chechens to win asylum in the US.
(14) Johnson knew his father beat his mother, and he just thought good riddance.
(15) The malnourished animals showed delay of consolidation and lower frequency of conditioned avoidance responses, escape responses and holdings as well as higher frequency of anticipatory reactions, vocalization, riddance attempts and touching of surroundings.
(16) Some will say good riddance to widening participation, which they saw as a leftish fad, social engineering imposed on universities obliged to admit “weak” students.