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For a long time, ChatGPT’s blistering growth had papered over these internal differences.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025

I walked the length of the floor several times before noticing that someone had papered over No. 514 and replaced it with a handwritten “513.”

From The New Yorker • Jun. 16, 2019

To those who questioned the uprising over the Wilson legacy, students in a group called the Black Justice League wrote in December that Princeton for too long had papered over Wilson’s faults.

From Washington Post • Apr. 4, 2016

Cook admitted here the other day that perhaps the team's successes during the past year had papered over a few cracks in his captaincy.

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2013

And to hold his outfit there was a rather sizable box which he with his own hands had papered inside and out from a remnant of gorgeously flowered wall-paper.

From The Seeker by Wilson, Harry Leon