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paper clip

NOUN
wire or plastic bent to hold paper
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Even a tiny magnet can lift a paper clip against the pull of Earth's entire gravitational field.

From Science Daily • May 18, 2026

So he found a workaround: a paper clip.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 8, 2025

After a few weeks, Webb had read it and stuck a paper clip — about 500 in all — over every passage that might offend the higher-ups.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 28, 2025

The paper clip scenario and others like it are science fiction.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023

“The paper clip idea was great,” I offer.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman



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