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paper clip

NOUN
wire or plastic bent to hold paper
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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

For example, when you bend a paper clip which is made of aluminum, the movement of dislocations inside the paper clip accommodates the shape change.

From Science Daily • Apr. 22, 2024

The paper clip scenario and others like it are science fiction.

From Scientific American • Jul. 12, 2023

Even Woo has a paper clip pinning his tiny nostrils together.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer