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 In 2014, three years after his death, it was found among the papers of his close friend Zdeněk Urbánek. — Václav Havel, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026 In January, its investigators reported finding more than 100 hallucinated citations in papers accepted at NeurIPS, one of the world’s top AI research conferences, as Fortune first reported. — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2026 The youth movement, which emerged earlier this year out of anger over high unemployment among young people and leaked examination papers, has grown into a political force. — ABC News, 2 Oct. 2026 And it’s backed up with a few recent preprint papers detailing Pioneer Labs’ research. — Brian Gallagher, Scientific American, 2 Oct. 2026 The archive includes 168 autograph letters by the naval commander, along with battle papers, family documents, naval logs, and books from Nelson and Hamilton’s libraries. — George Nelson, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 Nothing in the papers uploaded to the court docket shows members of the administration pushing for a rent freeze. — Josephine Stratman, New York Daily News, 1 Oct. 2026 The blockbuster trilogy of papers in the late 1990s showed that, mathematically, these two theoretical worlds (the AdS interior and the CFT surface) are the same. — Quanta Magazine, 25 Sep. 2026 The lawyer collected the papers and said Leigh was to leave the premises. — Josephine Reisman, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026

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Noun

The documents show details for only one part of Phoenix’s portfolio, and do not include assets in retirement accounts or stakes held in companies through mutual funds, corporate bonds and other securities, the accountants confirmed.

— Allegra Goodwin, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2026
Consider a bank using AI to read documents for small-business loans.

— David Pralong, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of documents

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But available information from state health departments and medical journals suggests the Florida outbreak marks the most cases in a calendar year for any state since at least the 1940s.

— Mike Stobbe, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026
Shimoda reveals how identities are forged through steamships crisscrossing the Pacific, formed by old family journals and photographs, and also obscured by systemic erasure.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of journals

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Her often chatty, sometimes dishy articles were a respite from the serious news items and editorials in the Black press, mostly about the fight for racial justice.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 1 Oct. 2026
The snake hunt was featured on TV newscasts and in newspaper articles.

— Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

Definition of articles

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Writing essays was not the sole consequence for any of those involved, according to the university.

— Cindy Carcamo, Christian Science Monitor, 2 Oct. 2026
The prolific and acclaimed writer and activist used his liberal beliefs and his agrarian roots in Kentucky to craft novels, poems and essays connecting the natural world to humankind.

— Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2026

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Also on the lobby level, a corner shop sells downloadable newspapers and magazines, snacks, and classic Penguin paperbacks.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026
Earlier bans were usually covered by local newspapers and then eventually forgotten.

— Naveen Basavaraj, The Conversation, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of newspapers

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Operating for nearly a century, Algani began in 1927 as a modest seller of newspapers, periodicals, and postcards before evolving into one of the city’s first international newsstands.

— Eleonora Giordani, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2026
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

Definition of periodicals

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