First recorded in 1820–30
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“If I can’t buy that new paper cutter that costs $200,000, how are you going to do that?”
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2022
Wildes headed to a paper cutter at the other end of Interact Center for the Visual and Performing Arts in St. Paul and began slicing his picture into 1-inch strips.
From Washington Times ● May 12, 2018
“It must have been OK. We still have the paper cutter, and it still works,” Berner said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 2, 2014
Reston’s Molly O’Boyle is particularly fond of the sound of a tabletop paper cutter doing its job.
From Washington Post
A man in a down jacket is using the paper cutter near the door, trimming a stack of pale blue cards.
From "Goodbye Stranger" by Rebecca Stead
They had not yet built any new Jerusalem, and the sword in their hand sometimes seemed hardly more than a paper-cutter.
From Time Magazine Archive
As he advanced and greeted the artist, she heard a quick, snapping sound, and saw the beautiful Bohemian glass paper-cutter her guardian had been using lying shivered to atoms on the rug.
From Macaria by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
She had given R. L. S. a paper-cutter by way of farewell token at his starting.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
To Miss Adelaide Boodle This lady, as we have seen, had made Stevenson a present of a paper-cutter when he left Bournemouth; and it is in the character of the paper-cutter that he now writes.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 24 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
The worth of a paper-cutter operator can be measured by an examination of the waste cuttings.
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