printing press

noun

: a machine that produces printed copies

Examples of printing press in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The 10 printing presses, once the beating heart of Freedom Center, will essentially be sold for parts and scrapped, Ridder said. Robert Channick, Chicago Tribune, 19 May 2024 The first printing press in the British colonies was not established until 1638, when locksmith Stephen Daye sailed from Cambridge, England, to Massachusetts, carrying a press in pieces. Adam Smyth, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2024 When the French justice minister used a 19th-century printing press to seal the amendment in France’s Constitution, cheers filled the plaza. Angela Charlton and Jade Le Deley, Quartz, 8 Mar. 2024 The Musical as aspiring musical theater writers Bud Davenport (Gad) and Doug Simon (Rannells), attempting to pitch investors on their grossly inaccurate musical about the life of Johannes Gutenberg, the inventor of the printing press. EW.com, 3 Oct. 2023 Along with the printing press came new methods of reaching potential buyers, and the same kind of revolution occurred later with the rise of radio and again with television. Expert Panel®, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024 Centuries ago, in the early days of printing presses, almost all typefaces had serifs. Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Feb. 2024 Copyright law, a set of rules that date back to the printing press, was not designed to cover large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT. Noah Feldman, The Mercury News, 3 Jan. 2024 Johannes Gutenberg was actually a con artist, attracted to get-rich-quick schemes before inventing the printing press. Byallie Garfinkle, Fortune, 29 Feb. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

1578, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of printing press was in 1578

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“Printing press.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/printing%20press. Accessed 23 May. 2024.

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printing press

noun
: a machine that produces printed copies

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