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Op-Ed

Or op-ed

[op-ed]

noun

  1. Also called Op-Ed page,.Also called op-ed page.a newspaper page devoted to signed articles by commentators, essayists, humorists, etc., of varying viewpoints.

    the Op-Ed of today's New York Times.

  2. an article written for this page.

    The governor was very upset when an Op-Ed criticized the corruption in her circle of advisors and appointees.



op-ed

/ ˈɒˌɛ /

noun

    1. a page of a newspaper where varying opinions are expressed by columnists, commentators, etc

    2. ( as modifier )

      an op-ed column in the New York Times

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Op-Ed1

An Americanism first recorded in 1920–25; abbreviation of op(posite) ed(itorial page), from its placement in the print newspaper
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of Op-Ed1

C20: from op ( posite ) ed ( itorial page )
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Example Sentences

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In an op-ed to the Wall Street Journal, Kennedy criticized the previous members of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices, founded in 1964, as being “plagued with persistent conflicts of interest and has become little more than a rubber stamp for any vaccine.”

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Times op-ed about his brittle relationship with Wilson, told it far differently, however.

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Two years after Silvia Federici published her seminal work "Wages Against Housework," a woman named Terry Martin Hekker took to the op-ed pages of The New York Times to bemoan the state of homemaking — not because she wasn’t being compensated for her time and labor, as second-wave feminists like Federici suggested she ought to be, but because she felt too few women were choosing to do it anyway.

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Hekker wrote this op-ed in 1977, a time when the U.S. economy had stalled.

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On this, Masha Gessen warns in a very important new op-ed essay at the New York Times that:

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