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unnews en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + news.

Meanings

1. (nonstandard, rare, uncountable) News that is unnewsworthy.
   • […] brand of what Orwell might have called 'unnews'. 1990, Gerry Abbott, Back to Mandalay: An Inside View of Burma, page 72:
   • […] six of the last ten World Series have gone the full seven games, and only the one-sided five-game victory of the Orioles over the Reds in 1970 ranked close to this year's affair as unnews. 2001, Aethlon, volume 19, page 151:
   • In the tumultuous autumn of 2005, as riots and car burnings raged through France, the contrasting calm in Marseille attracted little media attention; it was un-news. 2012, Karl E. Meyer, Shareen Blair Brysac, Pax Ethnica: Where and How Diversity Succeeds:

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