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dead-tree

British  

adjective

  1. informal printed on paper

    a dead-tree edition of her book

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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That’s what Kerf is suggesting, and it’s produced a dead-tree vessel that’s meant to hold precisely one Apple Card.

From The Verge Sep. 2, 2019

A newspaper — a genuine, dead-tree specimen — sits on the counter awaiting your review.

From Washington Post Mar. 18, 2015

If you take poetry seriously, or even half-seriously, you read the dead-tree editions.

From New York Times Jul. 29, 2014

The tome—304 pages for the dead-tree version—is written by Madhup Gulati, Adeesh Fulay, and Sudip Datta.

From Forbes Aug. 9, 2013

But then I'd printed it out and stuck it in my messy drawer of papers, the dead-tree graveyard where I kept all the warranty cards and pin-out diagrams.

From Little Brother by Doctorow, Cory

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