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The official also asked the paper to disclose its sources, but the Times refused.
From Salon ● Jul. 15, 2026
The manager introduced a white paper in May, framing what he said was the 4th evolutionary stage, or 4.0, of value investing.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 14, 2026
"The bison hooked him with his left horn on his hip and tossed him in the air," Mike Macleod, who recorded the incident, told the Cowboy State Daily, a local paper.
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2026
He knows politicians use him "like tissue paper", but is still grateful for the cash.
From Barron's ● Jul. 13, 2026
He wrote something on a sheet of paper.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
They came to this country without papers as teenagers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 14, 2026
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
Sharing of technology, including through open-source releases and research papers, may expose technical secrets.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 9, 2026
One woman on trial, who is accused of falsely declaring she is the biological mother of some of the babies, is listed as Marcus's mother in his Indonesian adoption papers.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
I don’t know why, but when Theo had described the pension office to me I’d pictured it like a library, a place we could walk around and peruse books and papers.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
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
Defunct timetables papered the walls; cigarette butts and chewing gum were stomped deep into the linoleum.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
At the moment, the setup is lacking sharpness and Duran’s late goals have been papering over cracks.
From BBC ● Nov. 21, 2024
Where the press fell short, Howard and the Buick management filled in by papering the city with full-page ads and brochures trumpeting every win.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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