headline-grabber

noun

Definitions

  1. A person or event that attracts prominent notice in the news media.

    • ‘Recidivism” – the tendency to reoffend – is a word that is largely confined to criminology lectures, official statistics and the occasional government report. It is not a headline-grabber like “hooligan”, “thug” or “teen gangster”.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for headline-grabber. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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