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paper

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


NOUN
newspaper
Synonyms




VERB
line with material
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Your mother has dementia, and you are making a lot of extra work for yourself by trying to employ the power of attorney to add a beneficiary to this paper stock certificate.

From MarketWatch Aug. 27, 2026

The company built pellet plants across the southern U.S., moving into parts of the pinery where pulp and paper mills had closed and left behind surfeits of sawdust, wood chips and cheap pulpwood.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

"Sometimes they printed a certain configuration, and the product just melted," said Azza Fadhel, first author of the paper and a PhD student in computer science.

From Science Daily Aug. 27, 2026

Curry recurs in Téa Leoni’s excellent sitcom as Sir Rudolph Halley, the imperious, amoral owner of the tabloid paper where Nora, Leoni’s character, works as a photographer.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 27, 2026

By now, the paper was probably crumpled up and hard to read.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Cofnas added that “Many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source,” and found similar issues in other papers written by Arday.

From Salon Aug. 23, 2026

Still, as I shuffled papers, I became part of the buffering, incomplete chain of communication.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 20, 2026

That effort has effectively been put to bed, as Menendez concluded that Congress never intended to allow the AG to access voter records and papers that state election officials create.

From Slate Aug. 20, 2026

Queen Camilla's first remarks about King Charles III's cancer journey is prominent across Wednesday's papers.

From BBC Aug. 18, 2026

Mrs. Tracy called on Joey Sisman to hand back some graded papers.

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

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

This wooden room was papered with newspaper clippings to keep the heat in.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 22, 2026

She led him back to her kitchen and dining-room combined, a warm little room papered with flowers.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

Despite going into the game following four straight clean sheets, former Ibrox striker Steven Thompson expressed doubts about his former side's performance level and suggested their wins had been papering over cracks.

From BBC Oct. 3, 2024

With laws barring government officials from entering homes without a warrant, the city had little recourse beyond papering the home with violations.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 21, 2024

Will the trends that have reinforced class lines while papering over the distinctions persist?

From "Class Matters" by The New York Times




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