plastic Paddy
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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All phone users will be used to the small plastic cards they need to delicately insert into their devices to make them operate.
From BBC • Sep. 12, 2025
Don’t even talk to her about those plastic cards that most people forget to use and end up in landfill.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 31, 2023
Using small scissors and glue, Mr. McKean cuts, stacks and arranges the thin plastic cards into yellow taxis, New York City streetscapes, abstract designs, miniature buildings and, of course, reconstituted MetroCards.
From New York Times • Nov. 17, 2022
Debt from the plastic cards now accounts for about $890 billion of Americans’ $16 trillion of household debt.
From Washington Times • Aug. 8, 2022
They carried chess sets, basketballs, Vietnamese-English dictionaries, insignia of rank, Bronze Stars and Purple Hearts, plastic cards imprinted with the Code of Conduct.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
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