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newsprint

[ nooz-print, nyooz- ]

noun

  1. a low-grade, machine-finished paper made from wood pulp and a small percentage of sulfite pulp, used chiefly for newspapers.


newsprint

/ ˈ²ÔÂá³Ü˳úËŒ±è°ùɪ²Ô³Ù /

noun

  1. an inexpensive wood-pulp paper used for newspapers
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Origin of newsprint1

First recorded in 1895–1900; news + print
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I love newsprint, because when I was very young, my parents gave me a microscope and the first thing I looked at was the edge of a torn newspaper.

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The paper mill used to produce newsprint paper employing 530 people in the 1990s.

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The trucking firms ran on the companies’ refined gasoline, the forestry and shipping interests used the Irvings’ construction subsidiaries, and a chain of newspapers purchased the newsprint from a nearby factory.

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But the days of cranking out 15 million tons of newsprint per year are over, as sad as we are to see it, and the output is now just 1 million tons per year.

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Under ordinary circumstances, an enormous variety of goods like automobiles, soybeans, pharmaceuticals, metals, textiles, animal feed, and even newsprint pass in and out of the port.

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