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made news

made news is the simple past and past participle of make news.

Meaning of make news

Verb

make news (third-person singular simple present makes news, present participle making news, simple past and past participle made news)

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) To be published in the news media.
    • He had no idea why the story made news; it did not seem at all newsworthy to him.
    Synonyms:
    make the news

Questions about made news

What is made news the simple past and past participle of?
Made news is the simple past and past participle of make news.

Words near made news in the dictionary

  1. made mouths
  2. made much
  3. made muffins
  4. made music
  5. made neither head nor tail of
  6. made news
  7. made nice
  8. made no bones about
  9. made no odds
  10. made no secret of
  11. made noise

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Adapted from Wiktionary: made news (page history and authors); make news (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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