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The paper also pays tribute to actress Hayden Panettiere who has died aged 36.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
A lot of this debt is in longer duration assets that may compete with government paper of a similar tenor, say analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The paper is titled "Towards fibre-like loss for photonic integration from violet to near-infrared."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
The piece cited a research paper from Stony Brook University professor Tuhin Chakrabarty that ran the book through the AI detection tool Pangram.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
The man took a piece of paper from his hip pocket and consulted it.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
But several exams have landed in controversies due to allegations of question papers being leaked and candidates using unfair means.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
The only real crowds are to be found in the daytime -- at banks, cheap bakeries and outside the Spanish consulate, where hundreds clutch papers and wait to get off the island.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
He has encouraged all of the Haitian workers at his restaurants to obtain legal working papers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026
OpenAI’s talent, funding and scientific papers paled in comparison to Google.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Cleveland papers were tipped off to the lawsuit, and—as always where the Fox sisters were concerned—the story spread across the country.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
Backed by a big, throwback live band, “Lost Me” beautifully papered over a failed relationship with an uncertain young bravado; “Backup Plan” gave his one-of-kind baritone room to roam and plead.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 13, 2026
But as someone who was in the chamber for that speech, those affects papered over a frequent incomprehensibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
So are the cracks being papered over and how deep does the pothole problem go?
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 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
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
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
In his own bathroom, Nickey limited himself to papering the top part of the wall, above the tiled wainscoting.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 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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