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The chair umpire then conducted a video review of what happened, and ruled that the flickering ad constituted a “hindrance” outside of the control of the players, like some paper getting blown onto the court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Archer's mother Lola was the first woman journalist on the weekly paper, the Weston Mercury.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026
In all three cases, as we examine in a paper with Terrence Keeley, the consensus was wrong and the public suffered severe consequences, while the architects of failure avoided accountability.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
The paper, 'Effect of non-nutritive sweetened beverages versus water on body weight: long-term results of a randomised controlled trial', was published in British Journal of Nutrition.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 4, 2026
He wrote something on a sheet of paper.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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Upon examining the man’s papers, the British soldier “notices that the Wehrmacht stamp is smudged. Below it there appears to be a trace of a previously affixed rubber stamp.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026
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
Last month European football's governing body filed legal papers in the US requesting disclosure of evidence and documents from Fifa, warning it could lodge a criminal complaint in Switzerland.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 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
Unlike traditional papers sold by expensive subscription; newsboys hawked these “penny papers” in the streets.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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Has Vinicius Jr brilliance just papered over the Brazilian cracks?
From BBC ● Jul. 27, 2026
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
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
They’re just papering over the crushing weight of impending responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
ActionAid UK's co-chief Hannah Bond, said that without new funding, her appointment was "papering over the cracks" of a struggling aid sector.
From BBC ● Mar. 8, 2025
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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