Thesaurus results for PAPERS

papers

noun

plural of paper

as in documents

a piece of paper with information written or to be written on it handed in the correct papers

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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 Remarkably, in 2019, Correia beat out a recall vote from the City Council by utilizing a section of the City Charter allowing the subject of a recall to file nomination papers for the next election and run to succeed themselves. — Tim Dunn, Boston Herald, 6 July 2026 Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas. — Mateo Rosiles, USA Today, 6 July 2026 Today’s large language models were trained on books, journalism, music, code, art, and scientific papers created by millions of people who never sat at any negotiating table and never received a market price for their contribution. — James Broughel, Forbes.com, 4 July 2026 But the absence of an entry on July 2, followed by an unbroken string of entries from July 3 to July 13, suggests that Jefferson eventually realized his mistake, said Jeff Looney, an editor of Thomas Jefferson’s papers at Monticello. — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 3 July 2026 When Brown asked to see the cache of papers, the librarian grilled her about her motives. — Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 3 July 2026 The early copy remained tucked away in Britain’s National Archives until a volunteer cataloging records from the American Revolutionary War came across it in May among the papers of Royal Navy captains. — Elmira Aliieva, NBC news, 3 July 2026 Court papers say Doyle used a different first name while dealing with Matthiesen and continued to invent excuses after the painting had been sold, even falsely claiming the buyer had failed to pay him despite already receiving the money. — Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 29 June 2026 The specific reason for the retractions was copyright violation, so there was nothing wrong with the actual papers from a scientific standpoint. — Jennifer Ouellette, ArsTechnica, 28 June 2026

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Noun

The documents say the company plans to build seven pump stations, three of them located on federal land managed by the agency.

— Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 10 July 2026
The suit, filed in Illinois’ federal district court in May, alleges that Thomas appropriated Karant’s images without attribution or consent, according to court documents obtained by Hyperallergic.

— News Desk, Artforum, 9 July 2026

Definition of documents

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It was widely observed and discussed in journals of the era and later became part of Revolutionary War Lore.

— Joe Rao, Space.com, 4 July 2026
This was so common that most American brewing journals were printed in both English and German until the start of World War I in 1914.

— Jay R. Brooks, Mercury News, 2 July 2026

Definition of journals

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— Saba Hamedy, NBC news, 9 July 2026
The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026

Definition of articles

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Lately, Klassen has brought those anthropomorphic gifts to board books, those indestructible literary objects that are larger than a cellphone and smaller than a tablet and far better than either for your child’s attention span, mood, and gums.

— Casey Cep, New Yorker, 7 July 2026
Greaney also co-authored several books in the Jack Ryan series created by Tom Clancy.

— Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 7 July 2026

Definition of books

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The newspapers allege the ChatGPT maker is hiding evidence important to what could be a landmark copyright infringement trial over how OpenAI and its business partner, Microsoft, built their AI technologies using millions of news articles.

— ABC News, ABC News, 9 July 2026
At first glance, the title sounds like another lament for the decline of local newspapers.

— Théoden Janes, Charlotte Observer, 9 July 2026

Definition of newspapers

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The center’s resources—all free—include more than a million books and periodicals, with 400 terminals and 75 staff members available to help dig through them.

— Arati Menon, Condé Nast Traveler, 7 June 2026
Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high.

— Ben Mankiewicz, CBS News, 7 June 2026