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The phrase "a newspaper of reference" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a newspaper that is considered authoritative or reliable for information and research purposes.
Example: "The Times has long been regarded as a newspaper of reference for its in-depth reporting and analysis."
Alternatives: "an authoritative newspaper" or "a reliable news source".
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Beuve-Mery established it as a "newspaper of reference" rather than a "newspaper of record".
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Try asking for help or advice, giving the student something you know they are interested in (a newspaper cutting, web reference, loan copy of a book) or simply say hello and pass the time of day.
But we had been moved by lots of stories we read in a newspaper", said Maurin, referencing a particular article in Le Monde.
Paintings and installations from WW II-era to the 1980s, demonstrate how the newspaper became a point of references for those artists seeking to critique the political and social environment in which they existed.
A kind of reference.
Illiteracy is also culturally exclusionary: if you don't read books or newspapers, your frames of reference become more limited.
Gabriel Byrne stays at the Barton Arms and a newspaper briefly tells of a hotel fire, also referencing the film the Coens wrote while blocked during the making of Miller's Crossing.
It has been impossible to read a newspaper since then without encountering references to separation of church and state.
But then Beaton spotted a brief reference in a newspaper to Darién – the region of Panama in which Scotland attempted to establish a colony in the 1690s.
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