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as in newspaper
a publication that appears at regular intervals
we get the paper every morning
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as in article
a short piece of writing done as a school exercise
write a paper about your favorite author
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as in essay
a short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view
the papers written by the Founding Fathers urging adoption of the federal constitution
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as in titular
being something in name or form only
there's a paper boycott of that company's products that nobody seems to be honoring
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Recent Examples of paper
Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 15 Jan. 2026
The Broncos just aren’t poised on paper to take advantage of Buffalo’s weakness to the run game.
—Luca Evans, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
The Salt Lake Tribune, 24 Aug. 2022
Some theater owners have told customers that certain sizes are available only in those non-paper options.
—Erich Schwartzel, WSJ, 31 May 2022
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The new paper by the CERN SPS team, published in the journal Nature Communications, details how the team used advanced models to determine the effectiveness of nuclear deflection.
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In the financial world, assets can be divided into two types: paper assets, and non-paper assets.
—Recent Examples of Synonyms for paper
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Attorneys for the plaintiffs and defendant signed a stipulation of discontinuance in November, according to a court document filed in December and obtained by Deadline.—
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It was described as a lengthy document.—
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That’s when a staff member at the Examiner suggested that authorities send the fingerprints using the newspaper’s new Soundphoto machine — an early version of a fax machine.—
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Bertetto said Wednesday that the Tribune-Review is committed to ensuring that Pittsburgh has a newspaper of record and shares in the loss of a historic pillar in the Post-Gazette.—
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This article was generated by the Bay Area Home Report Bot, software that analyzes home sales or other data and creates an article based on a template created by humans.—
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This article is being continuously updated.—
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Each episode features an in-depth interview with a fiction, non-fiction, essay, or poetry writer.—
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Much of what makes his essay convincing is its intellectual modesty, its readiness to say that trying to derive confident predictions of the future from the chaos of what is happening on the streets and in government offices is folly.—
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Violet McGraw, known for playing the titular role in the M3GAN franchise, is set to lead a YA comedy feature in which her character is similarly protective of those close to her but in a slightly less diabolical way.—
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Dilbert’s titular character, an engineer working in a cubicle at a high-tech company, goes through many of the routine yet farcical aspects of corporate bureaucracy that many Americans were familiar with.—
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The final slide of her carousel featured a video of her trying her hand at Muay Thai, a form of Thai boxing.—
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Freezing fog makes driving, boating, flying, and other forms of transportation particularly hazardous.—
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The details of the team’s research were published in the journal Science Robotics.—
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Keep your favorite books, journals, and crafts close by in your office, or add this wood display shelf to show off your book collection in your living room or bedroom.—
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Yet under the hood of a relatively stable unemployment rate, the composition of the job growth remains starkly narrow.—
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Ghanem added that body composition analyzers, like DEXA scans, will likely be more widely used as awareness grows about the limitations of BMI and weight in assessing obesity.—
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“Paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/paper. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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