- the first sentence or paragraph of a news story, giving the most important points of the story
- Check out this lede from Monday's front page story.
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Idioms
bury the lede/lead (US English)
- to fail to emphasize the most important part of a story or account
- Unfortunately, he buried the lede in the last paragraph of the story.
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