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Timesian

Timesian adjective: of, relating to, or characteristic of The New York Times.

Adjective

Timesian (comparative more Timesian, superlative most Timesian)

  1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of The New York Times.
    • The newly launched TimesPeople Beta is where The New York Times meets the social Web — think of it as all the news that’s fit to share. But it’s not a Timesian Facebook or MySpace: there’s no fretting over “friends” to accept or reject, no navigation of the foggy realm of online etiquette.2008 June 24, “Introducing TimesPeople Beta”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Jan 2009
    • While The Voice’s Foster Kamer, using some un-Timesian language, retaliated against a lowly colleague: […]2010 November 23, Dave Itzkoff, “The Twitterverse Reacts to Its Inability to Purchase Kanye West Tickets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived...

Examples of Timesian in a sentence

  • The unsupervised forums, he said, had devolved into something less than Timesian.2010 December 11, Arthur S. Brisbane, “Readers With Plenty to Say”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company...
  • Clines’s hands, it was a front-page story, with a soupçon of bemused irony lurking just beneath the Timesian surface.2022 July 11, “A Few Words From a Master Journalist”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC...

Forms of Timesian

comparativemore Timesian
superlativemost Timesian

Origin of Timesian

From Times + -ian.

Questions about Timesian

What does Timesian mean?
Timesian means of, relating to, or characteristic of The New York Times.
How do you use Timesian in a sentence?
The unsupervised forums, he said, had devolved into something less than Timesian.
What part of speech is Timesian?
Timesian is an adjective.

Words near Timesian in the dictionary

  1. timeshifted
  2. timeshifting
  3. timeshifts
  4. timeship
  5. timeships
  6. Timesian
  7. timesing
  8. timesink
  9. timesinks
  10. timesis
  11. timeskip

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