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paper

[pay-per] / ˈpeɪ pər /
ADJECTIVE
thin, flimsy
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


NOUN
newspaper
Synonyms




VERB
line with material
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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“I still think people are breathing into paper bags,” Rick Wilmer, chief executive of the charging company ChargePoint, said of the industry’s mood amid the downturn.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026

The Prince of Wales has spoken to the Daily Express for World Mental Health Day, telling the paper that "we do not always know what someone is carrying beneath the surface".

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

The researchers report their method and findings in a paper published in Science.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2026

And while it’s easy to create wealth through raising billions in capital or taking on debt, turning paper money into actual cash is harder to do.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 10, 2026

“I don’t think sending scores of people out onto a lake in paper boats screams of brilliance,” Zara says.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

And no number of white papers, roundtables, or outreach events is going to change that.

From Slate ● Oct. 7, 2026

The deluge included more than 700 papers covering hundreds of problems across number theory, algebraic geometry and other fields with names that could give people haunted by high-school math a migraine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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

In posts and papers, OpenAI researchers have repeatedly expressed a desire to maintain the faithfulness and reliability of chain-of-thought records.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

Then he took my papers and looked at them.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

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

I’d papered the walls with funny pages from the newspapers.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

“Eric, I really wish you would stop papering all these things,” she wrote in one exchange.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 2026

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

Two club-record signings - but are Palace papering over the cracks?

From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026

They’re just papering over the crushing weight of impending responsibility.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025

Where the press fell short, Howard and the Buick management filled in by papering the city with full-page ads and brochures trumpeting every win.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand




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