How to Use paper tiger in a Sentence
paper tiger
noun- The new laws are just paper tigers without any method of enforcement.
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Go and deal with this paper tiger.
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Alia Shoaib,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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The only thing that the Democrats and these crazy liberals have is this paper tiger.
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FOXNews.com,
24 Oct. 2025
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Until last weekend, Beijing’s statutes were a paper tiger.
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Steve H. Hanke,
Fortune,
4 May 2026
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It will be cited in climate change cases around the world, but may ultimately end up being a paper tiger - looking strong but having no real power.
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Jon McGowan,
Forbes.com,
28 Aug. 2025
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The Druze exception proves the rule—when repression crosses Israeli red lines, the paper tiger externally tears.
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Güney Yıldız,
Forbes.com,
7 Jan. 2026
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In the region, the United States will have proved itself a paper tiger, forcing the Gulf and other Arab states to accommodate Iran.
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Robert Kagan,
The Atlantic,
10 May 2026
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The executive order is seen by some as toothless and, ultimately, a paper tiger in the fight to protect consumers from a new, largely unregulated industry.
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Nick Coltrain,
Denver Post,
21 Dec. 2025
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Europe's paper tigers could have placed forces from their own nations into eastern Ukraine in January 2022 to enforce the 1994 treaty, thereby preventing the entire war.
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John Davenport,
MSNBC Newsweek,
19 Aug. 2025
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