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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
In September, leaders of Rx Kids released research papers evaluating how the program affects economic stability, maternal mental health and birth outcomes in Flint, where roughly a third of the population lives below poverty.
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Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 9 Feb. 2026
The set includes 21 labels (so there’s no fear of mixing up your wax and parchment papers).
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2026
Lemmas aren’t typically published as stand-alone papers.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
Police said that the victim was using the barrel to burn some of his personal papers and cardboard in the backyard.
—Riley Rourke, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Roughly 20 some -- or some million voting age Americans who don't actually have the -- the papers that would be required to show, readily available.
—ABC News, 8 Feb. 2026
The concept turned into the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which began collecting data in 1998 and has contributed to more than 12,000 scientific papers so far.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The study authors look to put out research papers on their additional findings in the future, Ree said.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
The waiting wasn’t made any easier by the heat, which the papers were calling a sample of July.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Nushrat Rahman, Freep.com, 9 Feb. 2026
The set includes 21 labels (so there’s no fear of mixing up your wax and parchment papers).
—Paige Bennett, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 Feb. 2026
Lemmas aren’t typically published as stand-alone papers.
—Joseph Howlett, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
Police said that the victim was using the barrel to burn some of his personal papers and cardboard in the backyard.
—Riley Rourke, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2026
Roughly 20 some -- or some million voting age Americans who don't actually have the -- the papers that would be required to show, readily available.
—ABC News, 8 Feb. 2026
The concept turned into the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which began collecting data in 1998 and has contributed to more than 12,000 scientific papers so far.
—Bob Goldsborough, Chicago Tribune, 7 Feb. 2026
The study authors look to put out research papers on their additional findings in the future, Ree said.
—Taylor Nicioli, CNN Money, 6 Feb. 2026
The waiting wasn’t made any easier by the heat, which the papers were calling a sample of July.
—Literary Hub, 27 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for papers
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Fact-check things on social media before reposting them, using sources that provide links to original documents.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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The files suggest that the couple and their children visited Epstein's island, and were named in a version of his will released in the Epstein documents.—
Kathryn Palmer,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
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The Nature network of journals recently published an article suggesting that GLP-1s reduce the risk of suicidal thoughts by more than half—and another article saying that they more than double the risk of suicidal behavior.—
Dhruv Khullar,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Reem Raouda is a leading voice in conscious parenting and the creator of the BOUND and FOUNDATIONS journals, now offered together as her Emotional Safety Bundle.—
Reem Raouda,
CNBC,
8 Feb. 2026
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Enhance your media literacy by learning the differences between news and opinion and, further, how to differentiate between advertising, news articles, letters, columns and editorials.—
Brenda Looper,
Arkansas Online,
11 Feb. 2026
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Lai, who pleaded not guilty, was convicted in December of conspiracy to collude with foreign forces to endanger national security and conspiring with others to publish seditious articles.—
Kanis Leung,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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In these essays, our columnists follow their curiosity, and explore important but not necessarily answerable scientific questions.—
Quanta Magazine,
Quanta Magazine,
13 Feb. 2026
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His passion for the medium and its great artists illuminates this volume, which is shaped around a list of 100 Black films contextualized in a series of critical short essays by Clark, providing a lively and robust history of global Black filmmaking.—
Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
11 Feb. 2026
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Tax forms for the national Indivisible, a tax-exempt social welfare group, show the group reported $5 million in assets in 2024.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
10 Feb. 2026
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These days, he is widely regarded as having the finest facility with metrical forms of any poet of his generation—a grasp of prosody both perfect and unpredictable, as if the complex metronome of that turbulent coastline ticked on within him.—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Users will also be able to purchase physical books through the platform.—
Cerys Davies,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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About two years after the launch of audiobooks on Spotify, the company is bringing physical books into the equation.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Feb. 2026
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Not long after, major television news networks and newspapers were covering the story.—
Jane Harper,
Dallas Morning News,
7 Feb. 2026
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The foundations for representative government, the 365-day Julian calendar, modern sanitation, newspapers, roads and the postal system were established in Rome.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
6 Feb. 2026
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Designate a place near the entryway for all mail, periodicals, and paper forms.—
Mary Marlowe Leverette,
The Spruce,
13 Jan. 2026
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His houses were featured in such prominent periodicals as Life magazine in the 1950s and Vogue in 1972.—
Edward Keegan,
Chicago Tribune,
11 Jan. 2026
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