newsprint
noun
news·print ˈnüz-ˌprint 
ˈnyüz-
: paper made chiefly from groundwood pulp and used mostly for newspapers
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web The royal continues to keep the latest papers nearby — in pictures published Tuesday, stacks of newsprint (their titles indiscernible) were visible on a side table. 
Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022 Bill Nye the Science Guy came, plus Brooke Shields in a black-and-white newsprint-evoking suit designed by the late Virgil Abloh. Washington Post, 1 May 2022 The Daily Times ran only one paragraph on the newspaper’s seventh page — 18 lines of newsprint — about the flight. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022 Both were well thumbed, dog-eared, the newsprint softened by many hands, and both showed the same photograph on their front pages. Ian Mcewan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 If newspapers-on-newsprint are in decline, then newspapers-delivered-by-kids-on-bikes seem like a relic of the even-more-distant past. Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2022 And the rise of smartphones provided an opportunity that seemed far superior to blanketing neighborhoods with newsprint: Offers could be personalized and aimed at specific demographic profiles. New York Times, 29 June 2022 Decades before John Galliano made his ‘Gazette’ newsprint a de facto monogram, Schiaparelli had created a print of collaged newspaper pages. Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 July 2022 Sussman, who had a sometimes wildly imaginative analytic mind, was not much interested in the predictable, if sometimes sensational events that consume so much of the average newspaper’s editorial resources and newsprint. Joshua Benton, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022 See More
Janine Henni, Peoplemag, 7 Sep. 2022 Bill Nye the Science Guy came, plus Brooke Shields in a black-and-white newsprint-evoking suit designed by the late Virgil Abloh. Washington Post, 1 May 2022 The Daily Times ran only one paragraph on the newspaper’s seventh page — 18 lines of newsprint — about the flight. David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2022 Both were well thumbed, dog-eared, the newsprint softened by many hands, and both showed the same photograph on their front pages. Ian Mcewan, The New Yorker, 1 Aug. 2022 If newspapers-on-newsprint are in decline, then newspapers-delivered-by-kids-on-bikes seem like a relic of the even-more-distant past. Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 July 2022 And the rise of smartphones provided an opportunity that seemed far superior to blanketing neighborhoods with newsprint: Offers could be personalized and aimed at specific demographic profiles. New York Times, 29 June 2022 Decades before John Galliano made his ‘Gazette’ newsprint a de facto monogram, Schiaparelli had created a print of collaged newspaper pages. Amy Verner, Vogue, 4 July 2022 Sussman, who had a sometimes wildly imaginative analytic mind, was not much interested in the predictable, if sometimes sensational events that consume so much of the average newspaper’s editorial resources and newsprint. Joshua Benton, The Atlantic, 9 June 2022 See More Word History
First Known Use
1909, in the meaning defined above