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Recent Examples of cardboard
The cardboard Christmas houses, decorated with glitter, twigs, and other items, are said to have originated with the Moravians who once created decorative Christmas villages built around Christmas trees, generally as an extension of a nativity.
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Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
Her family celebrated holidays in hotels with cardboard Christmas trees.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
One older trick to protect young stems is fitting the cardboard portion of a toilet paper roll around the stem as a barrier.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
Then, boxes were shallow cardboard squares with flaps to lock them into place.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2023
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Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 26 Nov. 2024
Her family celebrated holidays in hotels with cardboard Christmas trees.
—Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 6 June 2024
One older trick to protect young stems is fitting the cardboard portion of a toilet paper roll around the stem as a barrier.
—Tom MacCubbin, Orlando Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2023
Then, boxes were shallow cardboard squares with flaps to lock them into place.
—Saahil Desai, The Atlantic, 13 Jan. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cardboard
Adjective
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Thus, the dataset and the model are ready-made for launching new investigations and serve as a springboard accordingly.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Sports drinks are similar to electrolyte powders, but are ready-made and may contain different concentrations of carbohydrates and electrolytes.—
Brittany Lubeck,
Verywell Health,
11 July 2025
Adjective
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The technique might also yield interesting possibilities in cell therapy or precision surgery, where conventional tools are too large or blunt.—
Christopher McFadden,
Interesting Engineering,
7 Sep. 2025
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Such intimate screenings and parties will continue in different locations as the film makes its way into conventional theaters.—
Andrew McGowan,
Variety,
6 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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An unimaginative offseason and years of poor drafting left had them no choice.—
Andrew Callahan,
Boston Herald,
27 Aug. 2025
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The world of streetwear, expensive sneakers and sweatshirts is an unimaginative and dreary place.—
Jean E. Palmieri,
Footwear News,
19 May 2025
Adjective
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Burmese shops in Milwaukee sell dozens of kinds of canned or jarred items, including pickled ginger, pickled dogfruit, taro root and lotus root.—
Sophie Carson,
jsonline.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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Some canned sardines are high in salt, and eating too much could mean excess sodium, Hadley says.—
Erica Sweeney,
EverydayHealth.com,
25 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In sales, trust is currency, and nothing burns trust faster than sounding unoriginal, lazy or shady.—
Don Markland,
Forbes.com,
2 Sep. 2025
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Meta said unoriginal content is when images or videos are reused without crediting the original creator.—
Zach Vallese,
CNBC,
14 July 2025
Adjective
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Then there was his uninspired use of the Arsenale as a platform for his usual shtick about how everything from climate change to affordable housing could be solved if buildings were simply less boring.—
Kate Wagner,
Curbed,
5 Sep. 2025
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This lack of simple human interaction can often lead to a negative candidate experience that deters top talent who feel undervalued and uninspired by the process.—
Jason Elkin,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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In addition to thinking about how to escape John’s imitative poetry and scholasticism, Constantine had to consider his own future.—
Gregory Jusdanis,
Literary Hub,
12 Aug. 2025
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In Roeck’s picture, competitive, rather than imitative, habits of mind rose from religious warfare, establishing a cutthroat system of cultural and economic innovation which lasts to this day.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
Adjective
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Unlike the Air Force’s F-47, which uses an advanced adaptive-cycle engine for extended range, the F/A-XX will use a derivative powerplant.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Sep. 2025
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Eugenics plays prominently in the rhetoric being generated and is derivative of a legacy that good medicine and science should continue to shun.—
Mikelle Street,
Them.,
28 Aug. 2025
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“Cardboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cardboard. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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