paper clip
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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
After I got sick of making the paper clip chain, I checked the rest of the drawers looking for something else revealing.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
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