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parchment

[pahrch-muhnt] / ˈpɑrtʃ mənt /
NOUN
vellum
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It also turns the leaders of the AI companies into Lewis and Clark in coonskin caps with parchment maps, bravely surveying our country that it might understand its true size.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 2026

His pale, almost translucently white skin was stretched across the bones of his face like parchment.

From BBC Aug. 27, 2026

Researchers believe historic parchment represents a largely unexplored source of information that could connect genetics with questions traditionally studied by historians, archaeologists, and other scholars.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

Older versions of the story exist on clay tablets, but the water-damaged sections of parchment kept at the Manchester library are the most ancient version of the epic in "book" form.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The fifth scythe, a short man with an odd frown about him, stood and read from a sheet of parchment that could have been hundreds of years old.

From "Scythe" by Neal Shusterman

"We've shown that we're able to extract a tremendous amount of new information from these parchments without harming them," says Breen.

From Science Daily Aug. 11, 2026

There are no secret documents or Ark of the Covenant filled with parchments detailing punt returns, two-point plays or gunner lanes stored away on family property, they say.

From Seattle Times Oct. 25, 2022

The jars held the first of the parchments that would come to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls’ discovery kicked off a search that lasted for nearly a decade.

From Washington Post Feb. 9, 2017

When purchased legitimately inside the Vatican, the parchments range from $8 to $40 apiece.

From US News Dec. 14, 2015

Parchments had been signed, but wars were not fought on parchments.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin




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