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wallpaper

[wawl-pay-per] / ˈwɔlˌpeɪ pər /
VERB
paper
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK
paste up
Antonyms
WEAK


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Eataly itself sells a $25.99 Alfredo that, unlike so many jarred Alfredo sauces, does not taste as though someone dissolved Parmesan into wallpaper paste.

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

These systems have tics—em-dashes sprinkled everywhere, flattery, frequent resort to antithetical contrast—repeated until they become wallpaper, but the problem is greater than that.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026

I add the picture to my phone as the wallpaper.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

The great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026

"The target market for this is insanely small," he told one user on X last September who questioned his decision to launch a digital wallpapers app.

From BBC ● Dec. 2, 2025

I designed some almost-old-fashioned floral wallpapers for this house, but they’re often purposefully paired with a stripe.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2025

Flames had made their way into the lobby, catching on the thick carpet, on the restored wallpapers, the posters.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

The Boston Globe’s lead baseball scribe wallpapered the sports section with his Sunday Notes column, providing intelligence from all around Major League Baseball.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2026

Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026

Supercharged by TV, American nostalgia developed layers, like a living room wallpapered once a decade.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

One room of the show is wallpapered in a printed motif of enormous leaves, smeared here and there with giant slathers of fecal brown paint, on which paintings hang.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2022

But for the past eight or ten years, Mr. Larson had not bothered to take down the old papers—he just wallpapered over them with the new ones.

From "The Landry News" by Andrew Clements

And Nickey, who happened to be wallpapering his own bathroom, invited us along to see how it’s done.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024

She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2023

These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 2, 2023

Within months, Pate, 28, became Green’s partner in wallpapering, her protégé and her best friend.

From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2022

The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood


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