origami
noun
ori·ga·mi
ˌȯr-ə-ˈgä-mē 
: the Japanese art or process of folding squares of paper into representational shapes
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The way my lungs felt like they were being folded into origami.
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Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
The Japanese Club from Torrey Pines High School also joined the celebration, offering an interactive origami booth and teaching students basic greetings in Japanese.
—News Release, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Oct. 2025
The way my lungs felt like they were being folded into origami.
—Marisa McMillan, Outside, 7 Oct. 2025
And it’s now known that origami can be used to perform all sorts of computations.
—Kevin Hartnett, Quanta Magazine, 6 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for origami
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“Origami.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/origami. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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origami
noun
ori·ga·mi
ˌȯr-ə-ˈgäm-ē
: the Japanese art of folding paper into shapes
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