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Recent Examples of cardboard
Families and friends pile into cardboard watercraft of their own construction to commandeer through a course that, most of the time, ends with sinking vessels.
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Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
The packaging may still arrive in a box, but the business inside has moved far beyond the cardboard era.
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Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
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Anne Carson,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
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Anna Ortiz,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
The packaging may still arrive in a box, but the business inside has moved far beyond the cardboard era.
—
Alexander Puutio,
Forbes.com,
29 Aug. 2025
Polos, walking home from the theatre late at night, still wearing his makeup, ashes in a cardboard urn in his backpack.
—
Anne Carson,
New Yorker,
21 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cardboard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cardboard
Adjective
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While his previous rosters were ready-made, this one required more teaching.
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The most expensive work sold at auction by a living artist is Jeff Koons’s Rabbit, which takes the idea of a ready-made and casts it in stainless steel.
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But cruise missiles are more versatile in conventional warfare.
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The majority of Georgian wine reaching export markets is made in what producers call the European style — stainless steel fermentation, conventional winemaking, easily approachable.
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This is a competent if unimaginative (it was made for Lifetime, after all) retelling of the real-life tale.
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Despite its expense and hard-working cast, its extensive, expensive and eye-filling special effects, and an effective but ear-splitting score by Jerry Goldsmith, the film remains surprisingly small, thanks to David Odell’s unimaginative, earthbound screenplay.
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Just look for canned pineapple packed in 100% juice, not heavy syrup.
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Though the restaurant wrapped up its collections earlier this week, Alviany Dominguez, 53, still stopped by Wednesday morning to donate canned food.
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The film's trailer looked unoriginal and uninteresting.
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The first stage began in July 2025, when Meta announced comprehensive measures targeting accounts that repeatedly share unoriginal content without meaningful enhancement, building on enforcement actions that had already been taken against 500,000 accounts in the first half of the year.
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Featuring one of the world’s best defenses, the team has been uninspired in attack and didn’t score a goal in its first two matches.
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One of the earliest signs that the new Supergirl will be an uninspired slog is the overload of blobby alien dirtbags, grotesque creatures that look like they were refused admission to the Mos Eisley Cantina in the original Star Wars movie.
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The word is likely imitative (onomatopoeic), echoing the sound of heavy breathing during sleep.
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Since then, whenever new tools to crank out communications have become available, somebody has flooded the zone with the fastest, most imitative material that could garner attention.
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That’s like a derivative content conversation.
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According to the agency, the Dodd-Frank Act, a 2010 law passed in the wake of the housing crash to tighten financial oversight, expanded its authority by giving it control over swaps, a type of derivative contract.
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“Cardboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cardboard. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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