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makes news

makes news is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 makes news

What is makes news the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Makes news is the third-person singular simple present indicative of make news.

Words near makes news in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: makes 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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