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 Michael still had the hospital discharge papers in his truck. — Ruby Cramer, New Yorker, 31 Aug. 2026 Neither Meta nor Google will sell their stake in the company, according to the IPO papers. — Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 31 Aug. 2026 The papers served to underline how central banks are struggling to keep up with challenges introduced by technology. — Maria Eloisa Capurro, Fortune, 29 Aug. 2026 The city said the clerk’s role in processing nomination papers is a ministerial duty under state law. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 28 Aug. 2026 Learning how to challenge what's presented in board papers and ask confronting questions is good practice in exercising influence without relying on positional authority. — Melissa A. Wheeler, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2026 My mother has accused me of removing personal papers from her file cabinet. — Abigail Van Buren, Mercury News, 21 Aug. 2026 Instead, try to understand that your mother’s accusation may come from frustration with herself at having misplaced the papers. — Abigail Van Buren, Boston Herald, 21 Aug. 2026 While teaching a college writing class, Arianna Anaya discovered that an administrator was reading the papers her students uploaded to the school’s learning management software and the comments Anaya made on the work. — Cathy Bussewitz, Los Angeles Times, 21 Aug. 2026

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Noun

The Sun conjoins Mercury in Virgo and your 8th House of Shared Resources, Trust, Intimacy, and Mutual Support, bringing clarity to money, documents, access, care, or emotional expectations.

— Tarot.com, The Orlando Sentinel, 27 Aug. 2026
In 1968 Britain considered evicting the family by force, with declassified documents showing a plan to raze the fort.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of documents

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Historians have gleaned information from journals, letters and diaries, about their dialect.

— Karissa Waddick, USA Today, 27 Aug. 2026
The organization has generated $13 million in research, published 25 studies in scientific journals and created innovative programs to support veterans, according to its website.

— Alexandra Schonfeld, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of journals

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If Pangram’s tools are accurate, 260 out of 310 people who published guest articles in the NYT, WSJ, and Washington Post did it entirely with their own brains (or perhaps the brains of an underling).

— Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 27 Aug. 2026
Using real researchers’ names The AI company’s review of the Burke Institute’s articles found 34 of 36 were real academic articles misattributed to other authors.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of articles

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Dolly Parton's mass appeal, which transcends cultural, political and generational lines, is so intriguing that piles of books, essays, podcasts, TV shows and other media aim to get to the bottom of it.

— Heather Bushman, IndyStar, 27 Aug. 2026
This is part of a series of essays drawn from the Georgetown Global Dialogues, an ongoing program convening writers and intellectuals, many from the Global South, to discuss ways of confronting our current political crises.

— Pankaj Mishra, The New York Review of Books, 27 Aug. 2026

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Between tuition, books, supplies and all the other costs that arrive with a new academic year, transportation is one area where students and families may be looking to save.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 25 Aug. 2026
The government also plans to increase the use of physical books in classrooms, part of a wider effort to pull back from digital technology that has included banning smartphones in schools and proposing a social-media ban for children under 16.

— Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of books

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At the top were candidate debates and town halls, followed in close order by social media platforms, then by local news broadcasts and newspapers.

— Susan Page, USA Today, 26 Aug. 2026
After being recognized in Los Angeles following his picture hitting newspapers around the country in 1985, a group of Boyle Heights residents chased Ramirez down and beat him, holding him in place until police arrived.

— Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 24 Aug. 2026

Definition of newspapers

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People who might be lucky to have a roof over their heads gathered there to read American books and periodicals, watch American movies, listen to lectures about America, tap their toes to jazz from America.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
It is anticipated that all IEEE periodicals will be included in the Integrity Hub screening by the end of this year.

— IEEE Spectrum, IEEE Spectrum, 30 July 2026