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We established a school with Mountain State Spotlight in West Virginia after filing our new school’s name and location with authorities on a piece of notebook paper, then exchanging a few emails.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
The paper shows a synagogue and museum as two of the alleged targets.
From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026
Merchants followed the trade winds south from Oman and elsewhere in the Arab Peninsula for hundreds of years, bringing to the African coast everything from silks and porcelain to brass and paper.
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
We would have to provide a fee—in silver rijksdaalders, not paper money— plus an additional ration card.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
In posts and papers, OpenAI researchers have repeatedly expressed a desire to maintain the faithfulness and reliability of chain-of-thought records.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
Many of the papers are leading on the passengers who helped prevent a possible plane hijacking of a flight bound for Israel.
From BBC ● Oct. 1, 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
I stopped at Tante Jans’s rooms just long enough to take a briefcase of papers from the desk.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
This wooden room was papered with newspaper clippings to keep the heat in.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2026
For a long time, ChatGPT’s blistering growth had papered over these internal differences.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 9, 2025
The lower three quarters of the windows had been papered over, so the restaurant was dim and cool.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
There is a likelihood that Kostas Tsimikas will return from his loan spell at AS Roma if Robertson departed, but that would simply be papering over the cracks.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2026
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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