paperweight
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paperweights
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noun
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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
When only one person has a phone, it’s a paperweight.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2022
The collection is full of seemingly mundane objects: a paperweight, empty notebooks and lamps.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
An object his mother used as a paperweight stood beside the inkwell: a small glass sphere, on a black plastic pedestal, containing a snowman wearing a stovepipe hat.
From "Franny and Zooey" by J. D. Salinger
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
In his travels, Tocqueville saw pieces of the famous Plymouth Rock all over: used as doorstops, as paperweights, set in the centers of mantels like the mandibles of sainted martyrs.
From Slate ● Nov. 28, 2024
“I’ve got bulldog paperweights, bulldog bobbleheads, bulldog statues, bulldog socks, bulldog underwear.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 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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