how to pronounce news

/njuːz/

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news is pronounced in one syllable

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uː

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An example use of news in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… sort of more bad news perhaps this idea …”

meaning of news

News is information about recent events.

news frequency in english - A1 level of CEFR

the word news occurs in english on average 145.6 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for A1 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics news can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that news can be often used in the following areas:

1) communication, information, and media;