Headline-grabbing
If something is "headline-grabbing," it attracts a lot of attention
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When something is “headline-grabbing,” it attracts a lot of attention. Meetings of world leaders are often headline-grabbing, since they get a lot of attention in the newspapers. They generate a lot of newspaper headlines. Shark attacks, hurricanes, earthquakes—these are all headline-grabbing events. The newspapers love them. Did you hear the joke at the beginning of today’s episode? I said that the General Conference on Weights and Measures is not generally a headline-grabbing event. It would be rare for the topic of weights and measures to be in the news; it’s not a headline-grabbing event. But it is this year,since the world’s scientists decided to redefine the kilogram.