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Recent Examples of cardboard
On November 22, the Dollface star shared a video on Instagram of what looked to be a piece of paper bustling through the wind of a cardboard city.
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Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 3 Dec. 2022
Secure a cool moon and clouds kit with balloons or glittery cardboard cloud cutouts to impress your peers.
—Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
The facility was evacuated after a cardboard compactor caught fire last week, two days after the JFK8 fire, which was similar.
—Karen Weise, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
In the shadows for more than a half century, Mothman is now everywhere — in a stainless steel statue near downtown, in graffiti on the walls of the public bathrooms, in a cardboard frame with a face cutout so tourists can take photos.
—Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
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Adrianna Freedman, Good Housekeeping, 3 Dec. 2022
Secure a cool moon and clouds kit with balloons or glittery cardboard cloud cutouts to impress your peers.
—Seventeen.com Editors, Seventeen, 1 Dec. 2022
The facility was evacuated after a cardboard compactor caught fire last week, two days after the JFK8 fire, which was similar.
—Karen Weise, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2022
In the shadows for more than a half century, Mothman is now everywhere — in a stainless steel statue near downtown, in graffiti on the walls of the public bathrooms, in a cardboard frame with a face cutout so tourists can take photos.
—Emma Platoff, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Nov. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cardboard
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While the economy is largely supported by its robust ready-made garment manufacturing (RMG) sector, the second-largest in the world after China, Bangladesh has been diversifying its economy into new sectors such as pharmaceuticals, electronics, shipbuilding, and agro-processing.Sylvana Quader Sinha, Forbes, 24 Sep. 2024
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These include row houses, brownstones, and a virtual small downtown — all ready-made for a robotaxi demonstration.Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 3 Sep. 2024
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Drone fleets are impractical if not impossible to shoot down with conventional projectiles.Henry A. Kissinger, Foreign Affairs, 18 Nov. 2024
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Perhaps not coincidentally, by the time the first season ended, Tulsa King had become less of a lighthearted dramedy — about an old-fashioned New York crime boss way out of his element — and more of a conventional crime drama with betrayals, gunfights, and brooding regrets.Noel Murray, Vulture, 18 Nov. 2024
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Sometimes, the genre becomes an excuse for amateurish or unimaginative filmmaking.A.A. Dowd, Vulture, 30 July 2024
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At the same time, consumers are pushing back on poor quality and unimaginative fast fashion by thrifting, which has never been more popular.Rebecca Jennings, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
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This canned cocktail lured me in with promises of gin, cucumber, lemon and seltzer.Felicia Campbell, The Arizona Republic, 4 Nov. 2024
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This year, attendees will get to explore the Harley-Davidson Museum after-hours while sipping on different kinds of wine from dozens of wineries—as well as canned cocktails and spirits—and dancing to live music.Cailey Gleeson, Journal Sentinel, 30 Oct. 2024
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The funny thing is that the designs Mr. Reed has in mind for these ladies are as derivative and unoriginal as his monologues, and that’s kind of the point.Katie Walsh, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2024
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The bourbon shelf is overflowing with unoriginal ‘me-too’ bottles.Rachel King, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
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Giving cash doesn’t have to be awkward Despite popular convention that cash presents are gauche, tacky, or uninspired, Post says the annals of etiquette wisdom permit monetary gifts.Allie Volpe, Vox, 19 Nov. 2024
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The Da Vinci Code (2006) Hanks and Ron Howard’s adaptation of Dan Brown’s blockbuster novel is by-the-numbers and uninspired, but it’s professionally done in a way that’s mostly inoffensive.Tim Grierson, Vulture, 2 Nov. 2024
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Aziz rolled out a summer crime imitative in 2021, shortly after his tenure began.Jasmine Hilton, Washington Post, 30 July 2024
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The Emory oak restoration imitative to preserve groves in the region recently marked its fifth anniversary, Peacey said.The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 29 Feb. 2024
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The previous-generation’s platform and engines are still there, though somewhat modified, and styling changes are subtle rather than derivative.Aaron Turpen, New Atlas, 26 Oct. 2024
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In synthetic ETFs, the price moves in tandem with the derivative instrument's price rather than the sport price but converges on the spot price as the option settlement date approaches.Lawrence Wintermeyer, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Cardboard.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cardboard. Accessed 22 Nov. 2024.
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