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plural datelines
(journalism) A line at the beginning of a document (such as a newspaper article) stating the place of origin and typically the date, and often written in capital letters. quotations examples
Other bits of furniture include the dateline, which says where a journalist is reporting from – historically with the date of dispatch, eg “Buenos Aires, 1 March.”
2023 January 31, Elisabeth Ribbans, “The perils of using journalist jargon outside the newsroom”, in The Guardian
Misspelling of deadline. examples
third-person singular simple present datelines, present participle datelining, simple past and past participle datelined
To attach a dateline to a particular document quotations examples
He datelined the entry: "Oxford Mississippi, 27 January, 1926."
1993, Joel Williamson, William Faulkner and Southern History, page 207