noun phrase · formal
breaking news
UK/ˈbreɪkɪŋ njuːz/US/ˈbreɪkɪŋ nuːz/BREAK·ing NEWS
urgent or important news that is reported as soon as it happens
Examples
“The channel interrupted the programme to bring breaking news about the earthquake.”
“We watched the breaking news bulletin for updates.”
“Journalists rushed to cover the breaking news at the scene.”
Band 8 sentence
“The network interrupted regular programming to report breaking news about the political crisis.”
Collocations
- breaking news bulletin
- report breaking news
Word family
Common mistakes
a breaking news→breaking news
is breaking the news→is breaking news
break the news (to someone) used randomly→use 'break the news' only to mean 'báo tin xấu cho ai'
Say it for a higher band
5news→6latest news→7+breaking news
Synonyms
urgent news
Easily confused
break the news
“He had to break the news to her that the show was cancelled.”
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