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Recent Examples of printed matter
There seemed to be a hunger out there for printed matter.
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Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
Riffing off that collective nature, Laila will this month launch printings.jp, a new site selling fashion-centric printed matter: magazines, photography and art books, catalogs, invitation cards, and more.
—Monica Kim, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
Steve Appleford, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2022
Riffing off that collective nature, Laila will this month launch printings.jp, a new site selling fashion-centric printed matter: magazines, photography and art books, catalogs, invitation cards, and more.
—Monica Kim, Vogue, 12 Dec. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for printed matter
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In addition to first-class stamps, the price hike will affect metered letters (from 69 cents to 74 cents), international postage (from $1.65 to $1.70) and domestic postal cards (from 56 cents to 62 cents).—
David Chiu,
People.com,
11 Apr. 2025
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One ordered supervisors to remove about 200,000 petitions that were sent to voters via direct mail, a decision that a judge upheld on the Friday before Thanksgiving.—
Romy Ellenbogen,
Miami Herald,
15 Jan. 2026
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The tools employed in a special election are those found in any local or state election: door-to-door campaigning, direct mail, text messages, digital ads and social media.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
6 Jan. 2026
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Cut Out Clutter Imagine a pile of junk mail on your dining room table or a nightstand overflowing with a week’s worth of water glasses.—
Megan McCarty,
The Spruce,
23 Jan. 2026
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Junk Mail and Coupons Speaking of piles of paper, be sure to deal with your junk mail, too.—
Sarah Lyon,
Southern Living,
22 Jan. 2026
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But Bad Bunny put a lot of vendors [in his performance], and that sent a big message that vendors are not criminals.—
Stephanie Breijo,
Los Angeles Times,
10 Feb. 2026
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While Streeting was on-message with the rest of the Cabinet in supporting Starmer after Scottish Labour leader Anas Sarwar called for the prime minister to resign, the secretary reportedly spoke with Sarwar in the days leading up to the call for Starmer to resign.—
Timothy Nerozzi,
The Washington Examiner,
10 Feb. 2026
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Writer Robert Kaplow, a former New Jersey high school teacher who previously worked with Linklater to adapt his novel Me and Orson Welles, worked on the story for this — his first screenplay — for roughly 14 years after discovering letters from a young woman to Hart at an estate sale in New York.—
Trey Williams,
HollywoodReporter,
14 Feb. 2026
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Both outlets reported that the letter included a demand for millions in Bitcoin cryptocurrency.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
14 Feb. 2026
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But after a shoulder injury to Trevin Wallace, Rozeboom played 100 percent of the defensive snaps in the last four games, including the wild-card loss to the Rams.—
Joseph Person,
New York Times,
9 Feb. 2026
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Ensure the names on your ID and Social Security card match exactly.—
Detroit Free Press Staff,
Freep.com,
8 Feb. 2026
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The mercury should hit the mid-60s by kickoff and drop to the high 50s by the final gun, in what's shaping up to be a postcard Super Sunday.—
Andrew Greif,
NBC news,
8 Feb. 2026
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The show’s postcard-ready shots of the northern countryside, with its verdant hills and winding roads, are another incongruity, belying the challenges of survival there for those on the fringes.—
Inkoo Kang,
New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2026
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The responding officer heard screaming on the dispatch call and first responders arrived at the home where the teenage victim — whose name was not revealed — was pronounced dead, according to an incident report shared with The Times.—
Alexandra Del Rosario,
Los Angeles Times,
5 Feb. 2026
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Witnesses told dispatch that a man, identified as 38-year-old Jose Rodriguez Jaquez, was lying in a business parking lot with a gunshot wound.—
Elissa Jorgensen,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Feb. 2026
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“Printed matter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/printed%20matter. Accessed 15 Feb. 2026.
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