paperweight
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paperweights
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noun
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Origin of paperweight
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My tongue felt like someone had snuck a paperweight inside it.
From Salon ● Nov. 23, 2025
A few days later, McVay addressed his players while holding a paperweight emblazoned with “Built for this,” and he emphasized that theme after the Rams practiced Saturday in Tempe, Ariz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 13, 2025
In the past few years, he sold his valuable paperweight collection, got certified copies of his birth and marriage documents, and researched what it would be like to be Jewish in other countries.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022
The collection is full of seemingly mundane objects: a paperweight, empty notebooks and lamps.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
They practically shout at him while he sits mutely at his desk, moving a crystal paperweight inside a splash of light and then out again.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
When a promotion affords her a workspace, she cultivates a fixation with paperweights, which help keep her daydreaming grounded.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
This gets to the core of the matter: AI is driving runaway demand for processors like those Nvidia makes, but they would be paperweights without memory, so demand there is going bananas, too.
From Barron's ● Jan. 2, 2026
There are exhibits on geology, the environment, art, various artifacts from the Civil War, paperweights, antique cameras and even a miniature Samoan village.
From Seattle Times ● May 15, 2023
If you’d like to accept the award because you enjoy paperweights and feeling like you’ve got one over on your childhood bullies, accept it and then start ignoring their emails.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2020
I’ve had several unpleasant dreams where I’m encased in one of Gran’s glass paperweights or trapped beneath the bell jar that houses her arrangement of dried flowers and dead butterflies.
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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