dateline

dateline
/dayt"luyn'/, n., v., datelined, datelining.
n.
1. a line giving the place of origin and usually the date of a news dispatch or the like.
v.t.
2. to furnish (a news story) with a dateline: He datelines his reports Damascus.
[1885-90; DATE1 + LINE1]

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