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opening line

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Noun1.opening line - the first line of a piece of writing (as a newspaper story)
news article, news story, newspaper article - an article reporting news
line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"


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