cardboard
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Around that time, an office prankster briefly erected a life-size cardboard cutout of imprisoned crypto fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried—a joke partly about how similar Coplan, a fellow crypto billionaire, is in appearance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
Protesters chanted slogans against Sheinbaum and a group burned a cardboard effigy of her.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
At the edge of the crowd, a clutch of children were all drawing flamingos on a long piece of cardboard on the ground, and many people held pink flamingos on sticks.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Ducking into Maryam Lashkari, Hodjat Salimi and Oscar Tuazon’s interactive sculpture — an enormous cardboard tube lying on its side — feels like entering a culvert or a bomb shelter.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
“Dad has a word for that, right? A cardboard witness, or something.”
From "A Monster of a Mystery (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #5)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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