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
When McVay addressed his team earlier this week, he displayed a paperweight emblazoned with the phrase “Built For This.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 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
Wind whistling up through the jagged gash in the floor kept the myriad bits of paper circulating like alabaster particles in a paperweight and contributed to a sensation of lacquered, waterlogged unreality.
From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller
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
But the jailbroken tablets are essentially expensive paperweights without a Wi-Fi mobile hot spot to connect to the internet.
From Slate ● Dec. 14, 2023
Conch shells serve as paperweights, bowls, musical instruments and Christmas ornaments.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
It was a glass box in the middle of the station, full of Mardi Gras T-shirts and paperweights.
From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers
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