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• Fail to emphasize the most important part of a story or account.

  ‘one should always listen carefully to the president, as he has a tendency to bury the lede’

  More example sentences

  • ‘They buried another interesting lede in the article, which is that the share of income median families must devote to home ownership is the HIGHEST it's been since 1989.’
  • ‘Usually burying the lede 15 paragraphs in will be enough to ensure that most readers never see them.’
  • ‘The problem with this piece is a classic case of burying the lede.’
  • ‘"Reuters buried the lede," said my source.’
  • ‘Fair as the column is, Kondracke buried the lede.’
  • ‘Don't bury the lede and don't pile on when updating.’
  • ‘I understand that for those of you who are most concerned with the political aspects of this story, this may not amount to burying the lede.’
  • ‘That paragraph also buries the lede a bit, since we skipped right over a glowing projection for Yu Darvish.’
  • ‘Predictably, the editors buried the lede on this story, literally pushing the most damning revelations down to the last four grafs.’
  • ‘There's a few covers out there which manage to make these precious songs vibrant and new without sullying their reputation or burying the lede.’