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paper

[pey-per] / ˈpeɪ pər /
ADJECTIVE
thin, flimsy
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


NOUN
newspaper
Synonyms




VERB
line with material
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Nostalgia, one concludes, seeped into stamps long before the current decline of paper mail.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 11, 2026

The main story for the paper is a potential £100 increase on energy bills by the end of the decade, which it says is due to a "failure to upgrade Britain's power network".

From BBC Sep. 11, 2026

“This co-management agreement is really putting pen to paper on what is already happening on the ground,” said Geneva E.B.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 11, 2026

But don’t be surprised if the unusual event ends up in the local paper.

From MarketWatch Sep. 11, 2026

I held out my paper cup, but she lifted her chin at the crumpled-up cup on her own tray.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Like several of today's papers, the Times also carries a photo of Prince George on his first day at Eton College.

From BBC Sep. 9, 2026

Research is ongoing, but many papers have sought to analyze not only the different pitches and tones of the meow, but also how good we — humans, that is — are at understanding them.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2026

In one of his most-cited papers, published in 2011, a year before Xi’s rise to power, he coined a careful, almost optimistic label for China’s system: “regionally decentralized authoritarianism.”

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 8, 2026

In a statement published alongside his papers, Buckmaster said OpenAI had taken up the problem only after word of his research spread, and pursued the same unusual approach he and Alpoge had spent months developing.

From Barron's Sep. 8, 2026

The last layer on Theo’s drafting table is another map, one that must have been here for days, buried under these other papers.

From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse

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

Ironically, only Branwell’s room, papered with sketches and poems, looks like an artist’s refuge.

From Los Angeles Times May 14, 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

She led him back to her kitchen and dining-room combined, a warm little room papered with flowers.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

However, the last-gasp heroics were papering over the cracks of what were often patchy performances.

From BBC Dec. 31, 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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