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
Prepare the pan: Heat the oven to 350°F. Grease and flour a 9-inch round cake pan and line the bottom with parchment.
From Salon ● Aug. 16, 2026
Scientists have developed a way to recover cellular material from historic parchment manuscripts without damaging the documents.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 11, 2026
There, right in the basket’s center, he could see the last scrap of parchment.
From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray
"Our work shows that we can collect samples without harming the parchments, which is a big step forward."
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, 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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