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The allegation this week that an OpenAI engineer from Saudi Arabia wrapped a tiny mic in toilet paper and hid it in a company conference room has suddenly raised the specter of Silicon Valley spies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 18, 2026
We’re both U.S. citizens, safe on paper, but what if the value of our papers has changed?
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
"We were seeing paper that was being burned and all of this was completely novel."
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
The paper reports the 68-year-old was accosted at a cash machine, but fought back against the thief, who it says "scuttled away empty handed".
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
The paper in question is still on Theo’s bed where I’d piled the other papers earlier, right on top.
From "The Brightwood Code" by Monica Hesse
Hundreds of scientific papers have appeared within just a few years, and altermagnetism has become a prominent subject at international physics conferences.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
We’re both U.S. citizens, safe on paper, but what if the value of our papers has changed?
From Salon ● Oct. 18, 2026
This is a skillset of someone who is happiest in the darkest corners of government—the swampiest of swamps—a realm of acronyms, white papers, and multihyphenate bureaucracies.
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
In court papers filed over the weekend, the administration said the project “remains at an early and conceptual stage.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
Someone would snap some papers or the school bell would ring or a bus would honk its horn, and the adventure couldn’t go on.
From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott
Whatever the case, the Dodgers could face the kind of difficult roster choices they often have papered over with money this decade.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
Another echo occurred the following year when she papered her gallery’s wall in images of boats, and shortly after Warhol followed suit with silk-screen images of cows.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 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
Servants whizzed in and out, slipping behind silk screens or pushing out papered wall panels.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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 were 78-5 and 78-7 against Bangladesh and Pakistan respectively, the tournament's bottom two teams, with an edgy win and a washout papering over concerning cracks.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2025
They’re just papering over the crushing weight of impending responsibility.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
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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