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wallpaper

[wawl-pey-per] / ˈwɔlˌpeɪ pər /
VERB
paper
Synonyms
STRONG
WEAK
paste up
Antonyms
WEAK


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Witkoff has become so ubiquitous in international transactions that his role as the co-founder of Trump’s business has all but faded into the gilt wallpaper of the Oval Office.

From Slate Jul. 22, 2026

That level of period detail extends to Bradbury & Bradbury wallpaper, ball-trim swag valances and wall air vents laser-cut in Moorish patterns.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 21, 2026

Thanks to the dictionary pages she uses for wallpaper, she has a large vocabulary and is prone to ruminating about her ultimate purpose.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

After several thousand hours of filming, the wallpaper is changed to provide clients with variety.

From Barron's Jun. 11, 2026

She was looking around the room, at the furniture and the wallpaper, at Father’s large, cluttered desk, at the framed pictures on the walls.

From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon

The bathrooms exude charm thanks to their patterned wallpapers.

From MarketWatch Jul. 24, 2026

He raised the roof of the house he inherited; added wings, a porch and a cupola; and selected—along with his wife, Martha—the interior’s paint colors, wallpapers and furniture.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 7, 2026

He also thanked the artists who had been involved in creating wallpapers for the app.

From BBC Dec. 2, 2025

“Certain colors get canceled out. You have to think about wallpapers, upholstery and drapery fabric. Those are the big things.”

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 12, 2023

Flames had made their way into the lobby, catching on the thick carpet, on the restored wallpapers, the posters.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

Common to much of the user-generated content are eerie images and haunting stories of mysterious, yellow wallpapered corridors and empty office-like spaces that exist outside of, or beyond, reality itself.

From Science Daily Jul. 26, 2026

He records his first-hand “George Perez Stories” podcast and YouTube videos in a studio wallpapered with every vinyl comedy album he can find.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 27, 2024

Elliott said she wallpapered the room with 1 millimeter of a cork product, and the layers help with soundproofing.

From Seattle Times Jan. 6, 2023

At Amy Fontaine’s, a cheerfully wallpapered Midtown East watering hole, I ordered the “Mayo-nog” with trepidation.

From Washington Post Dec. 20, 2022

Risking injury, my father and Jimmy Papanikolas carried everything up the secret stairway behind the wallpapered door.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

She says the company took her and her colleagues on training courses to learn how to to do DIY, such as painting and wallpapering.

From BBC Oct. 7, 2023

These long chains of fractions could stretch out across 15 feet of notebook pages wallpapering his cell.

From Scientific American Jun. 2, 2023

For more than half a century, Reita Green has run her own wallpapering business in and around Los Angeles.

From New York Times Sep. 19, 2022

Since 1960 the former dancer and actress has run her own wallpapering business — lugging buckets, ladders and a folding table from her car to her clients’ homes by herself, well into her 80s.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 18, 2022

The mural itself had been damaged in spots by all the wallpapering done over it, so she was not able to make out the artist’s signature.

From "The Hidden Gallery" by Maryrose Wood




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