papering
- present participle of paper.
Example Sentences
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On Monday, the climate-vulnerable Alliance of Small Island States said countries could not keep ignoring "the elephant in the room" and warned that anything short of winding down fossil fuels was "papering over the cracks".
From Barron's ● Jun. 8, 2026
“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
Two club-record signings - but are Palace papering over the cracks?
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
With laws barring government officials from entering homes without a warrant, the city had little recourse beyond papering the home with violations.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 21, 2024
Will the trends that have reinforced class lines while papering over the distinctions persist?
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
