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as in journals
a publication that appears at regular intervals
we get the paper every morning
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as in articles
a short piece of writing done as a school exercise
write a paper about your favorite author
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as in essays
a short piece of writing typically expressing a point of view
the papers written by the Founding Fathers urging adoption of the federal constitution
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Recent Examples of papers
Authorities say surveillance footage of the cell showed that the legal papers were neatly stacked and no human excrement lined the cell walls.
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Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026
In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Batres said students, even those with asylum papers, had left the country rather than risk detention and being deported.
—Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
The 29-year-old mom of two dated a guy who claimed he was divorced, even presenting her with papers to prove it.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old from Minnesota, allegedly showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in January with a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter and, when jail guards asked for credentials, threw papers at them, according to prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
But someone told me a long time ago that the modal number—the number that is most common, not the average number—of papers that result from a science dissertation is… zero.
—Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
Prior to the company’s Chapter 11 filing — its second in less than a year — the airline had a fleet of 214 Airbuses, most of them leased, according to court papers.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
It is intended to provide the ability to more efficiently read neural radiance field, or NeRF, papers and translate them into code.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 24 Mar. 2026
In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.
—Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Batres said students, even those with asylum papers, had left the country rather than risk detention and being deported.
—Sara Sidner, CNN Money, 21 Mar. 2026
The 29-year-old mom of two dated a guy who claimed he was divorced, even presenting her with papers to prove it.
—Darcel Rockett, Chicago Tribune, 21 Mar. 2026
Mark Anderson, a 36-year-old from Minnesota, allegedly showed up to the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn in January with a barbecue fork and a pizza cutter and, when jail guards asked for credentials, threw papers at them, according to prosecutors.
—Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 20 Mar. 2026
But someone told me a long time ago that the modal number—the number that is most common, not the average number—of papers that result from a science dissertation is… zero.
—Literary Hub, 20 Mar. 2026
Prior to the company’s Chapter 11 filing — its second in less than a year — the airline had a fleet of 214 Airbuses, most of them leased, according to court papers.
—David Lyons, Sun Sentinel, 16 Mar. 2026
It is intended to provide the ability to more efficiently read neural radiance field, or NeRF, papers and translate them into code.
—Noah Lyons, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for papers
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Romello Edward Lloyd, 29, was charged with two counts each of threats of violence and unlawful possession of a firearm, according to documents filed in Stearns County on Tuesday.—
WCCO Staff,
CBS News,
25 Mar. 2026
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Instead of relying on teams to gather reports and insights, the AI can access internal data, documents, and communications directly to provide answers and recommendations.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
24 Mar. 2026
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Netflix’s new documentary about the early days of the Red Hot Chili Peppers and the influence of their founding guitarist, Hillel Slovak, uses an AI voiceover of the late musician reading through his personal journals.—
Cheyenne Roundtree,
Rolling Stone,
24 Mar. 2026
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There’s hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of poems in my journals that come right after a sad story or a happy story or whatever.—
Jessica Firger,
SELF,
23 Mar. 2026
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Subscribe to read this story ad-free Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content.—
Juliette Arcodia,
NBC news,
24 Mar. 2026
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Overnight, multiple articles were written based on the social media post that originated from the group chat.—
Joe Brandt,
CBS News,
24 Mar. 2026
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The Supreme Court ruling that banned the use of affirmative action in admissions said colleges could still consider how race has shaped students' lives if applicants share that information in their admissions essays.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
27 Mar. 2026
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The Supreme Court ruling that banned the use of affirmative action in admissions said colleges could still consider how race has shaped students’ lives if applicants share that information in their admissions essays.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
26 Mar. 2026
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Conversely, how could all forms of energy, not just mass, affect how all other objects in the Universe experienced the effects of gravity?—
Big Think,
Big Think,
24 Mar. 2026
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Being vocally left-leaning thus provides social status benefits and forms of self-congratulation that being conservative doesn't (if anything, in terms of the broader culture and the opinion-formulating institutions, conservatism tends to be rather lonely and something of a social liability).—
Bradley Gitz,
Arkansas Online,
23 Mar. 2026
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The sort of story that people write books about.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
26 Mar. 2026
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That has never happened, even with Miami taking a fiscally responsible approach last offseason to help balance Miami’s troublesome books.—
Omar Kelly,
Miami Herald,
26 Mar. 2026
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Astrologer Magi Helena's Your Daily Astrology column is syndicated to hundreds of newspapers worldwide, with a daily readership in the millions.—
Magi Helena,
Dallas Morning News,
29 Mar. 2026
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The art, likely not Franklin's own, was reprinted in newspapers throughout the colonies, one of the first instances in which the separate British colonies began to think of themselves as a somewhat unified entity.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
28 Mar. 2026
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Designate a place near the entryway for all mail, periodicals, and paper forms.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
13 Jan. 2026
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His houses were featured in such prominent periodicals as Life magazine in the 1950s and Vogue in 1972.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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