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Re:Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words s... by kungfufrog on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @04:50AM (#39601311)
I hope you don't mind the correction and apologies if you do, but it's actually "the lede was buried," where lede refers to structured writing in which the opening sentence of a paragraph summarises the most important parts of a narrative.
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Re:Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words s... by felsokning on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:14AM (#39601935)
Just for the down-vote, have a look at `lede` not being introduced officially into Merriam-Webster until 2008[1].

[1] - https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bury-the-lede-versu...

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Re:Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words s... by al_borland on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @09:03AM (#39603538)
Here is another explanation that points to the telegraph being the origin, although they could only find one reference to it, while siting countless examples of it not being used outside of this very specific context.

https://www.poynter.org/reporting-editing/2019/lead-vs-lede-...

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Re:Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words s... by throwawaymarch5 on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @05:19PM (#39609884)
*citing countless examples
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