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a short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view
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Rob Wile, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.
—ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
High Times’ website now publishes five articles a day, two new quarterly print issues are available and the company’s Cannabis Cups have returned so far to New York and New Jersey.
—Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
Insights does not appear on any news articles.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
But there have long been tensions between the United States and the Vatican’s effort to seek peace, as scholars writing for The Conversation have shown in past articles.
—Kalpana Jain, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
The articles include a variety of topics centered around City Hall, including the Kansas City Fire Department, housing, development and public safety.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
Allegations that Roberts-Smith engaged in war crimes began circulating publicly in 2017 and 2018 in articles published by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
—Elaine Mallon, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Rob Wile, NBC news, 28 Apr. 2026
News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.
—Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 28 Apr. 2026
Lai, an outspoken critic of China’s ruling Communist Party who founded the now-defunct newspaper Apple Daily, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.
—ABC News, 21 Apr. 2026
High Times’ website now publishes five articles a day, two new quarterly print issues are available and the company’s Cannabis Cups have returned so far to New York and New Jersey.
—Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
Insights does not appear on any news articles.
—Los Angeles Times, 20 Apr. 2026
But there have long been tensions between the United States and the Vatican’s effort to seek peace, as scholars writing for The Conversation have shown in past articles.
—Kalpana Jain, The Conversation, 13 Apr. 2026
The articles include a variety of topics centered around City Hall, including the Kansas City Fire Department, housing, development and public safety.
—Kacen Bayless, Kansas City Star, 7 Apr. 2026
Allegations that Roberts-Smith engaged in war crimes began circulating publicly in 2017 and 2018 in articles published by The Age, the Sydney Morning Herald and The Canberra Times.
—Elaine Mallon, FOXNews.com, 7 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for articles
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This is the latest edition of The Critics, our weekly roundup of critical reviews, essays, and conversations.—
Jasmine Vojdani,
Vulture,
24 Apr. 2026
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By the turn of the 21st century, many newspapers had expanded the role of the op-ed page to their editorial pages, sometimes surrendering space normally reserved for the newspaper’s editorials for essays and letters from contributors and readers.—
Encyclopedia Britannica,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
23 Apr. 2026
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Murphy sorted through a few papers and pulled out a white sheet featuring a grid with boxes highlighted green, yellow or red.—
Zack Meisel,
New York Times,
27 Apr. 2026
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The focal point of Monday's case is the Fourth Amendment's ban on unreasonable searches of people, their homes, papers, and effects, unless police obtain a warrant issued by a neutral magistrate, and aimed at obtaining specific evidence of a crime.—
Nina Totenberg,
NPR,
27 Apr. 2026
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“Articles.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/articles. Accessed 2 May. 2026.
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