wallpaper
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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
Scrolls of fallen wallpaper lying in the floor like ancient documents.
From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
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
The great outdoors played a significant role in the design of the home, which was outfitted with multiple organic elements, including silk wallpapers, fossil stone floors, and rich wood accents and beams throughout.
From MarketWatch ● Feb. 2, 2026
It includes prints, watercolours, ceramics, wallpapers, murals, posters, advertising designs, book illustrations and even a garden bench.
From BBC ● Feb. 17, 2024
“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
He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees.
From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri
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
Now, ahead of the big game, the league has effectively wallpapered its image onto Las Vegas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 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
Fabric is equally integral to the pictures of Ruth Leonela Buentello, a first-generation Mexican American whose work is hung in a gallery that’s been wallpapered for maximum homeyness.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 15, 2022
At the far end was a nearly invisible door, wallpapered over like the entrance to a secret passageway.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Another option: wallpapering the ceiling instead of the walls.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
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
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
