How to Use paperless in a Sentence

paperless

adjective
  • Those with paperless billing can go to a website link in their monthly invoices, officials said.
    — David Ibata, ajc, 15 June 2018
  • Boscio at the time used the arrest to press the argument that the jail should move toward paperless mail to prevent contraband.
    — John Annese, New York Daily News, 11 June 2026
  • Fourteen states still use paperless voting machines in at least some precincts, leaving them with no paper record of how people voted.
    — Erin Kelly, USA TODAY, 22 Mar. 2018
  • The first objective is to get rid of paperless electronic voting machines.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 2 Jan. 2018
  • This ruling applies only to Georgia, but at least parts of eight other states still use paperless balloting.
    — Kate Brumback, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Aug. 2019
  • In an effort to ward off scalpers, promoter Live Nation is using paperless tickets.
    — Aidin Vaziri, Esquire, 24 Feb. 2016
  • Ohio’s secretary of state declared all of the machines unfit and called for paperless machines to be replaced with optical-scan equipment.
    — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 2 Jan. 2008
  • Here's what to know about the change, and how to make the switch to paperless Social Security checks in Wisconsin.
    — Anna Kleiber, jsonline.com, 29 Sep. 2025
  • The paperless machines are used in 58 of Indiana's 92 counties.
    — Justin L. MacK, Indianapolis Star, 17 Oct. 2019
  • Election officials agree paperless machines are much less vulnerable to hacking.
    — Sarah Zimmerman, chicagotribune.com, 23 June 2018
  • The Town has an online billing system, InvoiceCloud, which saves time, reduces errors, and allows paperless billing.
    — Courant Community, 29 Aug. 2017
  • The Town has an online billing system, InvoiceCloud, which saves time, reduces errors, and allows paperless billing.
    — Courant Community, 18 Dec. 2017
  • This can mean using paperless invoicing and upcycling office furniture.
    — Emily Perschbacher, chicagotribune.com, 30 May 2017
  • In an increasingly paperless and digital world, everyone needs broadband access.
    — Jon Brodkin, Ars Technica, 11 Aug. 2017
  • Although the world is starting to become paperless, things like catalogs, statements, newspapers, homework assignments and children's art projects can stack up quickly.
    — Danielle Moser, baltimoresun.com, 27 June 2017
  • The Heat will continue with their paperless access through the Heat app, with tables to be set up at Gates 1 and 2 for those needing those needing assistance.
    — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 20 Oct. 2017
  • Efforts to replace all voting machines in another paperless state, Georgia, died when the legislature adjourned in March.
    — Michael Wines, New York Times, 8 May 2018
  • Some jurisdictions have rushed to purchase new equipment, especially to replace paperless machines, which experts say are more vulnerable.
    — NBC News, 29 Aug. 2019
  • About one fourth of Kansas' 105 counties still use paperless touch screen machines, including Johnson County.
    — Greg Gordon, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • In a possible fillip for retail demand, the offering will be Hong Kong’s first fully paperless listing, according to Reuters.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2019
  • Congress has allocated $380 million to help states with election security upgrades, but that is just a fraction of what would be needed to replace all paperless machines.
    — Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Radiohead used a paperless system for many of its prime seats at the Sprint Center show in April, requiring fans to show identification at the gate to be admitted to the show.
    — Timothy Finn, kansascity, 29 Oct. 2017
  • That includes a new dispatch and radio system for the police department, software for the accounting department, and paperless workflow options in City Hall.
    — Gustavo Solis, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2018
  • In Georgia, state officials rely solely on 15-year-old paperless touch screens manufactured by the former voting vendor Diebold.
    — Greg Gordon, kansascity, 3 Apr. 2018
  • So experts argued that the paperless electronic voting machines many states adopted in the early 2000s posed a serious threat to the integrity of our election systems.
    — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
  • The center will include the first paperless presidential library, which will make all non-classified documents relating to his presidency available in digital form.
    — Weston Williams, The Christian Science Monitor, 5 May 2017
  • In regular session, the council introduced an ordinance changing city code to require electronic and paperless filing of campaign statements of economic interest.
    — Laura Groch, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 June 2019
  • In particular, Congress should act to help states and counties replace the old, paperless direct recording electronic machines that are still used in 14 states with more secure, accessible systems.
    — Lawrence Norden, Slate Magazine, 7 July 2017
  • In an effort to move the FBI into a paperless environment, the bureau spent over $600 million on computer systems that were way behind schedule and in one case had to be scrapped as obsolete.
    — Washington Post, 18 May 2017
  • Yet, 14 states—including some jurisdictions in Georgia, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Texas—still use paperless electronic voting machines.
    — Lawrence Norden, The Atlantic, 10 May 2017

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