op-ed
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See also: oped
Etymology
Abbreviation for “opposite the editorial” (often incorrectly thought to be abbreviation for opinion/editorial).
Pronunciation
Noun
- A newspaper page containing signed articles by commentators expressing viewpoints that may not agree with those espoused by the editorial board, traditionally printed opposite the editorial page.
- 2017 August 26, Bret Stephens, “Tips for Aspiring Op-Ed Writers”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
- The purpose of an op-ed is to offer an opinion. It is not a news analysis or a weighing up of alternative views. It requires a clear thesis, backed by rigorously marshaled evidence, in the service of a persuasive argument.
Translations
newspaper page containing signed articles
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Adjective
op-ed (comparative more op-ed, superlative most op-ed)
- Of or being a newspaper page, usually opposite the editorial page, that features signed articles expressing personal viewpoints.
- 2009/05/08, William Safire, Choice or Necessity
- The question was probably bottomed on a combination of phrases in a Washington Post op-ed article that appeared not three months before by Richard Haass, who was a foreign-policy adviser in both Bush administrations and is now president of the Council on Foreign Relations.
- 2009/05/08, William Safire, Choice or Necessity
- Of an article, written in a style suitable for publication as an op-ed.
- 2005, Art & Collection Group, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art:
- For a more ‘op ed’ approach to the current state of the Hong Kong art scene see my recent article "Doer's Droop," South China Morning Post, August 23, 2005, C6.
- Of a person, regularly expressing viewpoints by means of op-eds.
- 1991, New York Times, The New York Times biographical service, volume 22, Arno Press:
- Descriptions of him vary from "aggressively intelligent," "inventive," "articulate," "the most ‘op-ed’ academic in the field of education" to "arrogant" "combative," "hostile," and "dismissive" of ideas not his own.
Translations
containing signed articles
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Verb
op-ed (third-person singular simple present op-eds, present participle op-edding, simple past and past participle op-edded)
- (transitive, intransitive, rare) To write an op-ed article.
- 2003 November 17, Roger Angell, “Gone South”, in The New Yorker:
- Getting either or both of the Cubs and Red Sox into the World Series on their hallowed home fields had been a happy possibility nationally discussed and op-edded since July, and when the two teams were again dispatched winless into winter their fans were left with a last gnawing weirdness: […]
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