paper route

noun

US
: a job of delivering newspapers to the same places every day

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My paper route was along this area. — Christopher Keating, Hartford Courant, 28 June 2026 Well, unbeknownst to the shooter at the time, there was a boy who had just completed his paper route. — Mary Spicuzza, Journal Sentinel, 31 July 2024 Buffett used both of these religiously on his morning paper route. — Sydney Lake, Fortune, 14 Apr. 2026 Almost everything that my sister disliked about the paper route was something that appealed to me. — Peter Hessler, New Yorker, 31 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for paper route

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