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parchment

[pahrch-muhnt] / ˈpɑrtʃ mənt /
NOUN
vellum
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We can credit the actor’s innate emotional agility for his commitment to every part, or a versatility earned over decades of playing many major heroes and villains the Bard scribbled onto parchment.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2026

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

The ability to recover substantial genetic information without damaging the parchment could make institutions more comfortable allowing researchers to study valuable manuscripts.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026

And if the parchment is never found, at least some of my words will stay in Toledo.

From "Across So Many Seas" by Ruth Behar

"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 National Archives rotunda where they sit is dim and chilly, for conservation reasons, and visitors shuffling past the displays can see why — the parchments are faded and hardly legible.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 10, 2018

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

From US News ● Dec. 14, 2015

José Arcadio Segundo, devoured by baldness, indifferent to the air that had been sharpened by the nauseating vapors, was still reading and rereading the unintelligible parchments.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez


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