pamphlet
noun
pam·phlet
ˈpam(p)-flət 
: an unbound printed publication with no cover or with a paper cover
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pamphlets about common safety precautions that we all can put into use
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There’s no leafletting and pamphlet dropping on college campuses.
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Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
In some accounts of American history, the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin decisively turned public opinion against slavery, accomplishing what pamphlets and political rhetoric could not.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
The pamphlet offered instructions for how to acoustically recognize an incoming threat and how to determine whether the source is machine-gun fire, artillery fire, rocket launchers, or an air raid.
—Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Over its final thirty years the abolitionist movement was a popular cause written about in novels, poems, and pamphlets that Austen would have known about and read.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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Paul Solotaroff, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2025
In some accounts of American history, the novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin decisively turned public opinion against slavery, accomplishing what pamphlets and political rhetoric could not.
—Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic, 3 Oct. 2025
The pamphlet offered instructions for how to acoustically recognize an incoming threat and how to determine whether the source is machine-gun fire, artillery fire, rocket launchers, or an air raid.
—Joanna Warsza, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2025
Over its final thirty years the abolitionist movement was a popular cause written about in novels, poems, and pamphlets that Austen would have known about and read.
—Literary Hub, 22 Sep. 2025
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“Pamphlet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pamphlet. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.
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pamphlet
noun
pam·phlet
ˈpam(p)-flət
: a short printed publication with no cover or with a paper cover
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