"lede" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is used as a verb meaning to lead or guide, often used in the phrase "lede astray." For example, "She lede her people away from the cliffs to safety."
LET'S talk a little more about production of tradables and American stagnation (how's that for an attention-grabbing lede?).
In his focus on arriving at his inflation destination, I think he ends up burying the lede:Will we get inflation?
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IT'S a lede to chill a Spaniard's heart:The Bundesbank has warned that apartment prices in Germany's biggest cities could be overvalued by as much as 20 per cent, stepping up its concern about a real estate boom in the powerhouse of the European economy.
But I've buried the lede.
"I wanted to write a lede, and I was voted down by probably everybody, about what was not in the documents," Robinson said.
And, "at the risk of raising further public concern, we cannot rule out the possibility of an explosion," Yukio Edano, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary, said Sunday (see the video below, via the Times's Lede blog).
As far as I can tell, the literary lede has disappeared from the online versions, though evidence remains here.
But the lede of Farber's piece is buried — toward the end, he lays the blame: All this seems to have started in an exciting, if hammy, 1941 picture called Citizen Kane.
