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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.
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Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
6 July 2026
Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas.
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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.
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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.
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Harmeet Kaur,
CNN Money,
3 July 2026
When Brown asked to see the cache of papers, the librarian grilled her about her motives.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Jennifer Ouellette,
ArsTechnica,
28 June 2026
Tim Dunn,
Boston Herald,
6 July 2026
Mateo Rosiles is the Texas Connect reporter for USA TODAY and its regional papers in Texas.
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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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for papers
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Court documents say witnesses noticed Lopez acting strangely before the attack.
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Kai Poma plans to conduct cultural and archaeological resource studies and environmental surveys and then prepare a resource management plan for the property, according to planning documents.
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It was widely observed and discussed in journals of the era and later became part of Revolutionary War Lore.
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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.
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On the walls, black-and-white printouts of newspaper articles, magazines and book pages looked like they were plucked from a Pinterest board on scrapbooking.
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The internet is swarming with articles and videos decrying the decision.
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Artificial intelligence has complicated the reliability of admissions essays.
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Woolf composed her great modernist novels and her brilliant essays while troubled by suicidal thoughts and the tumult of two world wars.
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But honestly, thanks to the ubiquity of Ring cameras, data brokerage, and facial-recognition technology, sundry forms of surveillance are now a regular part of modern American life.
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Humidity usually rises overnight as temperatures fall, which is why nights feel damp and dew forms by early morning.
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The Legislature’s independent fiscal analysts have also raised concerns that the state’s books remain vulnerable to the specter of a deep drop-off in the stock market.
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Barrett and Jackson each reported the most extensive travel of court justices promoting their books in 2025.
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Bay Area News Group competed in Division 1, the contest’s category for California’s largest newspapers.
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Mentions of her appeared in major newspapers during her career.
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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.
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Galaxy, Analog, and Amazing Stories, those three periodicals – and our bathroom was piled high.
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