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Recent Examples of cardboard
Takeout containers are cardboard rather than plastic.
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Christopher Elliott,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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.
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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.
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Tom MacCubbin,
Orlando Sentinel,
21 Jan. 2023
See All Example Sentences for cardboard
Christopher Elliott,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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.
—
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
See All Example Sentences for cardboard
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cardboard
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Investments in textile and ready-made garment projects in West Qantara have exceeded $1 billion, according to SCZONE.
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Our beautiful encircling topography of mountains and hills is a bowl ready-made by ancient plate tectonics to be filled with smoke and smog.
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But Lohar isn’t interested in conventional battle.
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Developed in partnership with the University of Bremen, the wheels were originally heavier and narrower than comparable conventional pneumatic wheels.
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This meant that teams were rewarded more for winning, encouraging imaginative and positive play over unimaginative and negative play aimed at sneaking a win or grinding out a draw.
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Neutrals can get boring, but this easy palette reads effortless, not unimaginative.
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The brand offers a one-to-one replacement for nearly every classic liquor on the market, plus sparkling wine and canned cocktails.
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The food comes in either canned or bagged and boxed packaging.
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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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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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Stanton represents Bonnie’s fantasy world as a bright dimension of pastel drawings and glitzy colors, whereas the Lilypad games are flat and uninspired.
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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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It may be borrowed or coined, named after a person, inspired by a place or imitative of a sound.
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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 29 Jun. 2026.
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