parchment
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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 gently rub the parchment with a dry cytology brush, the same type of brush used for Pap smears.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
Once your dates are prepped, lay them on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
From Salon ● Jul. 20, 2026
He moved without warning, snatching his scrap of parchment from them so fast that he didn’t have time to feel anything.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
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"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
The Vatican used to outsource the parchments to craftsmen around town, but earlier this year cancelled the work to keep all proceeds in-house.
From US News ● Dec. 14, 2015
José Arcadio Segundo was still reading over the parchments.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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