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You may mean "lede"?

Either I don't understand the reference, or I'm not understood. The "lead" is the first paragraph of the publication.

That's what they're saying. It's spelled "lede": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lede

Thanks! It seems both spellings are correct, however nice to learn the main one, and additionally an idiom. https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/lede