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As a corrido played in the background, Panfilo Maldonado and Juan Aleman worked silently, efficiently, opening boxes, spilling bundles over a long table, stripping out the cellophane.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2024
A 2,100-foot roll of cellophane costs $45; it was $25 in 2019.
From New York Times • Apr. 15, 2024
Trees and shrubbery made from green paper littered the rig, particularly on the helipad, where a farm thrived under a transparent cellophane biodome.
From Slate • Dec. 16, 2023
“Relationships were relentlessly stapled out of cardboard and then wrapped in cellophane with professional-looking bows,” Hermetz wrote.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 6, 2023
The furniture looks as if it’s been picked out by her parents: a square-armed off-green sofa, a wheat-colored carpet, a coffee table, two lamps with the cellophane still on the shades.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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