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papery

[pay-puh-ree] / ˈpeɪ pə ri /


ADJECTIVE
paper
Synonyms
Antonyms
WEAK


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Being back at Disney, Dudamel admits, is very emotional, especially conducting “Walküre” with Gehry’s sets of billowy, sumptuous clouds and fanciful white papery horses.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 19, 2026

The show pairs the painting with a Kiki Smith sculpture, created over five decades later, that portrays the papery form of a woman from the waist down, her fetus dangling by an umbilical cord.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 19, 2026

The walls are lined with papery things — sheets of newspaper and fragments from a map.

From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2024

The surgical team spent hours cutting through the layers of papery membrane and soft tissue that protect his brain.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2023

“They’re disgusting. Those papery wings and their stupid bug bodies . ..” She shudders.

From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth




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