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bury the lead

bury the lead is the alternative spelling 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.

Forms of bury the lead

third-person singular presentburies the lead
present participleburying the lead
past participleburied the lead
pastburied the lead

Questions about bury the lead

What is bury the lead the alternative spelling of?
Bury the lead is the alternative spelling of bury the lede.

Words near bury the lead in the dictionary

  1. Burwood Heights
  2. bury
  3. bury one's head in the sand
  4. Bury St Edmunds
  5. bury the hatchet
  6. bury the lead
  7. bury the lede
  8. bury your gays
  9. buryable
  10. buryal
  11. buryals

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bury the lead (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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