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buries the lede

buries the lede is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bury the lede.

Meaning of bury the lede

Verb

bury the lede (third-person singular simple present buries the lede, present participle burying the lede, simple past and past participle buried the lede)

  1. (US, idiomatic) To begin a story with details of secondary importance to the reader while postponing more essential points or facts.
    • The news account started by recounting details of the candidate's appearance and buried the lede by not mentioning his new call for tax reform until the 19th paragraph.

Questions about buries the lede

What is buries the lede the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Buries the lede is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bury the lede.

Words near buries the lede in the dictionary

  1. buriers
  2. buries
  3. buries one's head in the sand
  4. buries the hatchet
  5. buries the lead
  6. buries the lede
  7. buriest
  8. burieth
  9. burikko
  10. Burila Mare
  11. burimamide

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Adapted from Wiktionary: buries the lede (page history and authors); bury the lede (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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