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Definition of News leak
1. Noun. Unauthorized (especially deliberate) disclosure of confidential information.
Generic synonyms: Disclosure, Revealing, Revelation
Derivative terms: Leak, Leak, Leaky
Lexicographical Neighbors of News Leak
Literary usage of News leak
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Empires of the Far East: A Study of Japan and of Her Colonial Possessions by Lancelot Lawton (1912)
"... cannot be satisfactorily ascertained so long as the Japanese persist in
maintaining a censorship over the press. Occasionally items of news leak out, ..."
2. In Darkest Africa, Or, The Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin, Governor of by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"But presently news leak that Khartoum is fallen, and Gordon slain, and all power
and stern authority prostrate ; then comes the upheaval—the revolt of the ..."
3. General Kenney Reports: A Personal History of the Pacific War by George C. Kenney (1997)
"The General said to go ahead on the planning but not to help the news leak out,
as he might want to carry that operation out if anything went wrong at ..."
4. Louisa May Alcott: Her Life, Letters, and Journals by Louisa May Alcott (1889)
"We have let little bits of news leak out about us, and they think we are dukes
and duchesses in Amer- ique, and pronounce us ires ..."
5. In Darkest Africa by Henry Morton Stanley (1890)
"But presently news leak that Khartoum is fallen, and Gordon slain, and all power
and stern authority prostrate ; then comes the upheaval—the revolt of the ..."
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