noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a tabloid headline (= a headline in a newspaper that has a lot of stories about famous people, sex etc )
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One tabloid headline read 'Doctor of Death'.
a tabloid newspaper (= a small-sized newspaper, especially one with not much serious news )
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Their wedding made the headlines in all the tabloid newspapers.
a tabloid paper (= one with small pages, especially one without much serious news )
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Don’t believe everything you read in the tabloid papers.
the tabloid/popular press (= popular newspapers that have a lot of news about famous people etc, rather than serious news )
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He regularly appeared in the tabloid press alongside well-known actresses.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
supermarket
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Her doorman was perched on a folding chair, his attention largely given over to a supermarket tabloid .
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Most of them, however, had pulled copies of the Globe because the supermarket tabloid published copies of grisly crime-scene photographs.
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Morris neither confirmed nor denied the story, which had been pursued by the Star, a supermarket tabloid .
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Kathie Lee and Frank Gifford decorate the front pages of every supermarket tabloid .
■ VERB
read
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He had long since given up reading the tabloids .
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If people are going to have their opinions formed by what they read in the tabloids , he feels sorry for them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Her latest affair was splashed across the cover of the supermarket tabloids.
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She claimed that she had had an affair with the President, and sold her story to the tabloids.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And if coverage by the tabloids has missed some of the debate's subtleties, perhaps that is little surprise.
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It was this morning's paper he had brought her, a national tabloid printed in London.
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No photo expert for either side has scrutinized the 30 snapshots, which Flammer is shopping to tabloids.
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She just married me to get money from selling to the tabloids.
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The tabloids went for sensations, scandals, gossip and, especially, opinion.
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The national dailies can be dismissed quickly, especially the tabloids.
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Witnesses who cooperate with tabloids in return for money often find themselves subjected to withering criticism if they are called into court.