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In a working paper posted to the National Bureau of Economic Research’s website this month, the economists looked both across communities within the U.S. and across countries to analyze how economies respond to lower birthrates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
The work was presented as a scientific meeting abstract, meaning it has not yet undergone peer review or been published as a full journal paper.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 13, 2026
The paper leads with the words of one mother whose son died in the crowd crush: "I'm over the moon".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
The combination looked sensible on paper, but Disney’s shares have trailed the S&P 500 by 300 percentage points since it closed seven years ago.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
Henk brought a sheet of paper from the desk in the next room and tore it into nine small strips.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
The majority of the studies on UPFs that make headlines are observational papers looking at associations between self-reported food intake and health outcomes—these tell us little about whether UPFs actually cause ill health.
From Slate ● Jul. 12, 2026
Many of the papers cover new details that have emerged in the investigation into former Tory minister Ann Widdecombe's death.
From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026
“Mom is still afraid to go out, and she has her papers in order.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 11, 2026
Nobody has filed divorce papers, and important players on both sides are working hard to keep a loveless marriage going.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
Psychologists, surgeons, and neurologists came from all over the world to present scientific papers on frontal cortex injuries.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
Yes, we've had things to cheer about - like a couple of trophies over the summer - but that papered over cracks.
From BBC ● May 16, 2026
Ironically, only Branwell’s room, papered with sketches and poems, looks like an artist’s refuge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
But as someone who was in the chamber for that speech, those affects papered over a frequent incomprehensibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
Ekitike's quickfire double papered over the cracks of another concerning first half performance for Arne Slot.
From Barron's ● Jan. 31, 2026
It was papered in green and gold and had a small, ornate couch inside.
From "Genuine Fraud" by E. Lockhart
On Monday, the climate-vulnerable Alliance of Small Island States said countries could not keep ignoring "the elephant in the room" and warned that anything short of winding down fossil fuels was "papering over the cracks".
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
“AI is papering over the cracks,” said Stefan Angrick, head of Japan and frontier markets economics at Moody’s Analytics in Tokyo.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
They’re just papering over the crushing weight of impending responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
However, the last-gasp heroics were papering over the cracks of what were often patchy performances.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2024
I pick at the yellowed pages of the Chicago Defender papering over the wall.
From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome
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