cardboard
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Wood is expensive, so many families send their children into the street to find plastic and cardboard to burn as fuel to make bread or heat food.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Yvette Kuhns, 58, has brought along a large plastic bin filled with dozens of cardboard signs that she shares with fellow protesters -- people she calls "my family."
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Machines programmed to sort merchandise in warehouses hit kinks with cardboard boxes and turkeys.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
I covered myself in bits of cardboard, packing tape and foam peanuts and overdid my makeup with several coats of mascara and thick black eyeliner.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026
There was a sort of whirr and then the cardboard box began to move through the water.
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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