Idiom
put to bed
Meaning
To prepare (a newspaper) for printing.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“The editors put the newspaper to bed late last night.”
“The team worked through the night to put the final edition to bed before the morning deadline.”
“After the lead investigative piece was finally verified, the exhausted staff put the Sunday paper to bed just as the sun began to rise.”
Examples
simple
“The editors put the newspaper to bed late last night.”
contextual
“The team worked through the night to put the final edition to bed before the morning deadline.”
complex
“After the lead investigative piece was finally verified, the exhausted staff put the Sunday paper to bed just as the sun began to rise.”
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