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Dance coach Kevin Adams was convicted in 2023 and jailed, the paper reports.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Previously, he would have had to fumble with a paper map that risked deteriorating in the jungle humidity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
A 2022 paper also identified higher levels of toxic metals associated with crude oil in the nail clippings of people living near the site.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
"The price of diesel at the pump is expected to fall", the paper says, after countries including France, Germany and Italy agreed to release a "massive amount" of diesel to ease supply pressures.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Auntie Bernadette placed something that felt like stiff paper in Maggie’s hand.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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"I was quite appalled at the lack of any kind of documentation of Bradford's Asian communities beyond the stuff that you'd see in the local papers," he says.
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
My dad and so many of my loved ones came to this country without papers before attaining citizenship.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
The board papers contained a further report, headed Response to the Independent Stillbirth Review, which said four cases were assessed as having care deficiencies likely to have affected the outcome for the baby.
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2026
He’s trying to get her papers, and there was a technicality in there—she had crossed over and not said it and is getting deported.
From Slate ● Sep. 28, 2026
Then he took my papers and looked at them.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Has Vinicius Jr brilliance just papered over the Brazilian cracks?
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
Many of his projects remain intact, including the ornamental lake he had dug, and a bathroom papered with a montage of original newspaper clippings chronicling major events from the early 20th century.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 8, 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
Dean's bedroom wall's papered with posters of West Bromwich Albion.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
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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
At the moment, the setup is lacking sharpness and Duran’s late goals have been papering over cracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
With laws barring government officials from entering homes without a warrant, the city had little recourse beyond papering the home with violations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
Will the trends that have reinforced class lines while papering over the distinctions persist?
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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