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byline

  • /ˈbaɪlaɪn/

Rhymes with -aɪlaɪn

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From by- + line.

noun bylines · by-line

  1. A line at the head of a newspaper or magazine article carrying the writer's name. Paste Magazine opted not to put a byline on its harsh review of Swift’s album, citing safety concerns for the writer.
  2. A touchline.

verb bylines · bylining · bylined · by-line

  1. transitive To provide (an article) with a byline. Mitchell, Lange and Brus (2013) find that in a top international relations Journal^([sic])—ISQ—83 percent of men's citation are to research bylined by just men, while 57 percent of women's citations are to articles bylined by just men (table 2).

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@misc{byline_2026,
  title = {byline},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/byline},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}