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A government official said it sees the paper as a statement of intent, rather than a formal policy moving towards implementation.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
"They want me to sign a paper that says that if the baby dies due to lack of a nursery, they won't be responsible."
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
But this depends entirely on the brokerage’s policy for depositing paper stock certificates.
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
From under tables appeared writing paper, books, knitting yarn, tins of biscuits.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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This might be puberty or menopause, and some papers suggest a link to Covid.
From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026
Public Bank is reducing its reliance on wholesale deposits and increasing the use of lower-cost funding sources such as commercial papers and repurchase agreements, she says.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
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
“They’re good,” Mr. Lew said of Ba’s papers.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
Ironically, only Branwell’s room, papered with sketches and poems, looks like an artist’s refuge.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2026
But as someone who was in the chamber for that speech, those affects papered over a frequent incomprehensibility.
From Slate ● Feb. 24, 2026
So are the cracks being papered over and how deep does the pothole problem go?
From BBC ● Feb. 9, 2026
It’s papered in small blue flowers, forget-me-nots, with curtains to match.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
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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
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
In his own bathroom, Nickey limited himself to papering the top part of the wall, above the tiled wainscoting.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 28, 2024
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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