How to Use dateline in a Sentence
dateline
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El Niño is a factor in the high SSTs around the dateline.
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 22 Feb. 2016 -
The rates quoted here are current as of the dateline at the top of the story.
— Martha C. White, wsj.com, 29 Oct. 2023 -
No one in Washington seems to know what the story is, or even where to set the dateline.
— Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2021 -
Customize the dateline above the time by tapping on it to add info like the moon phase.
— Heather Kelly, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022 -
The letter, which carried a Rochester dateline, was addressed to Maj.
— Deneen L. Brown, Washington Post, 14 Feb. 2018 -
Say a prayer, dear reader, for the vehicles behind the bylines and datelines at The Times.
— Manny Fernandez, New York Times, 1 Mar. 2020 -
This version has been corrected to correct the spelling of Pokrovsk in the dateline.
— Yuras Karmanau, BostonGlobe.com, 29 May 2022 -
The new dateline has been used hundreds of times since its introduction last year.
— Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 26 May 2023 -
The spelling of New Orleans in the dateline also has been corrected.
— Stacey Plaisance, Houston Chronicle, 1 May 2020 -
The last version of the dateline was introduced in 2007, when The Times stopped including the date of reporting in a dateline.
— Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 26 May 2023 -
This past week the dateline featured an Arkansas town again.
— Arkansas Online, 8 Aug. 2020 -
Get used to lots of rallies with datelines like Oshkosh, Reading and Kalamazoo.
— Dante Chinni, NBC News, 28 July 2019 -
Which would take longer: the 5,439 miles traversing the international dateline and eight time zones, or the journey through the airport and to a downtown hotel?
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2021 -
Their story had a Washington dateline, not Florida, which brings me to this next item...
— Brian Stelter, CNN, 13 Oct. 2020 -
Such storms are called typhoons west of the international dateline and hurricanes to the east.
— Audrey McAvoy, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023 -
For two months last year, a smoky plume stretched around half the globe at the equator, drifting from East Africa to the international dateline in the western Pacific Ocean.
— Aaron Sidder, National Geographic, 1 Aug. 2016 -
Typhoons are tropical cyclones that form in or move into the western North Pacific Ocean west of the dateline.
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 July 2013 -
Each thumbnail portrait takes a minute or so to read, and each one begins with the dateline recitation of the address in Amsterdam where the person’s story took place.
— Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 17 May 2023 -
The story carried a Moscow dateline and Mr. Gershkovich’s byline.
— Mary Anastasia O’Grady, WSJ, 4 June 2023 -
Note that abnormally warm water along the equator on either side of the dateline, along with its extension up along the coast of North America, as well as the cold patch in the northern Pacific?
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2015 -
The international dateline also marks the border between Russia and the United States off Alaska’s west coast.
— Frank Jordans, The Seattle Times, 18 July 2017 -
Abnormally warm surface waters concentrated mostly east of the dateline in the Pacific are a hallmark of El Niño.
— Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 9 July 2015 -
All that’s changing is a name, a new corporate sponsor replacing the Staples Center signage that provided a dateline for the last 22 years of Lakers basketball.
— Los Angeles Times, 24 Dec. 2021 -
Hurricanes are spawned east of the international dateline, while typhoons develop west of it.
— Audrey McAvoy, The Seattle Times, 26 Oct. 2018 -
While Hernández is back, another Sox infielder remains stuck on the other side of the international dateline.
— Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2023 -
The account terms in this story are current as of December 2023 except interest rates which are updated periodically and are as of the dateline.
— Martha C. White, wsj.com, 18 Dec. 2023 -
The average page has a main header and footer and then may also use the same tags within an article tag, for example, to wrap a headline, dateline and other auxiliary information.
— Scott Gilbertson, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2011 -
Gabriel, a former Reuters editor, organizes the chapters by dateline, taking an almanac-like approach, the idea being, more or less, that a thorough record of Madonna’s accomplishments will speak for itself.
— Michelle Orange, The New Yorker, 9 Oct. 2023 -
Interestingly enough, the new format echoes the conversational style of early Times datelines.
— Mathew Brownstein, New York Times, 26 May 2023 -
There’s also this: U.S. athletes historically don’t perform as well on this side of the international dateline.
— Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 July 2021
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