scrap paper
noun
: paper that is partly used or is of poor quality but that be used for unimportant things
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Sometimes, the essay needs to be written on a piece of scrap paper while pulled over on the side of the road.
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The poem was a souvenir of the fleeting moment of its composition, its irregular right margin suggesting words jotted on scrap paper.
—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Furthermore, the budget is already scrap paper because the deadly wildfires that were scorching Southern California as it was being released will clobber tax revenues while imposing massive new financial burdens.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The documents that Trump used as scrap paper were at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided the resort in August 2022, but agents did not find them.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
On a piece of scrap paper, draw lines to represent the individual pieces of tape, then map out how to connect then with the shortest possible distance between the ends.
—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
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Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2025
The poem was a souvenir of the fleeting moment of its composition, its irregular right margin suggesting words jotted on scrap paper.
—Dan Chiasson, New Yorker, 4 Aug. 2025
Furthermore, the budget is already scrap paper because the deadly wildfires that were scorching Southern California as it was being released will clobber tax revenues while imposing massive new financial burdens.
—Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 30 Jan. 2025
The documents that Trump used as scrap paper were at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided the resort in August 2022, but agents did not find them.
—Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
On a piece of scrap paper, draw lines to represent the individual pieces of tape, then map out how to connect then with the shortest possible distance between the ends.
—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Scrap paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrap%20paper. Accessed 30 Oct. 2025.
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