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make the news

make the news is the alternative form 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

Forms of make the news

third-person singular presentmakes the news
present participlemaking the news
past participlemade the news
pastmade the news

Questions about make the news

What is make the news the alternative form of?
Make the news is the alternative form of make news.

Words near make the news in the dictionary

  1. make the first move
  2. make the fur fly
  3. make the grade
  4. make the headlines
  5. make the most of
  6. make the news
  7. make the passes
  8. make the perfect the enemy of the good
  9. make the riffle
  10. make the road shorter
  11. make the rounds

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Adapted from Wiktionary: make the 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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