Example Sentences

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“AI is papering over the cracks,” said Stefan Angrick, head of Japan and frontier markets economics at Moody’s Analytics in Tokyo.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 4, 2026

And in South Los Angeles, a young volunteer is papering telephone poles with flyers containing appointment information.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 22, 2021

Young’s fundamental critique seems to be that this productivity-obsessed vernacular is papering over an existential pointlessness at the heart of modern work.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2020

My sister is papering up the book—careful soul!

From The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 by Lamb, Mary