(US, journalism) The status of information acquired from a source that may be used, but without either naming or directly quoting the source.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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