: a length of wire bent into flat loops that is used to hold papers together
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Organize paper clips, push pins, and cords in your office drawers, and hair ties, bobby pins, and cotton rounds in your bathroom cabinets.—Claire Hoppe Norgaard, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2025 Despite some users’ unlikely vitriol for the anthropomorphic paper clip, much more malicious bots became obvious to users in the years to come on social media, especially on Twitter in the chaotic election season of 2016.—Ashley Lutz, Fortune, 22 July 2025 For example, a person walks into a room and sees a paper clip on the floor.—Bryant Stamford, The Courier-Journal, 2 July 2025 Unlike the predictable drawers that pull out, this style slides out to the side, so pulling out paper clips feels more like an event than a rudimentary task.—Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 30 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for paper clip
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