scrapbook
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scrapbooks
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Folded into the cozy slide-show vibe of Magnason’s home videos and the carefully chosen archival footage, the movie plays like a scrapbook portrait in which home just happens to boast the grandest of backyards.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 5, 2026
You can find more of her work—along with an ongoing digital scrapbook and archive of the early web—at her website, default.blog.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 20, 2026
Standing pitchside at a muddy Lancastrian playing field is a football fan excitedly applying the finishing touches to an enormous, time-worn scrapbook.
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
We carried the empty paper bag home with us on the plane, taking care not to rip it, and then pasted it into in our scrapbook.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
At the end of the semester, after the elections, we were to turn in a scrapbook with all the articles about the campaign published in the Santa Maria Times, the local newspaper.
From "Breaking Through" by Francisco Jiménez
Boxes with scrapbooks and pitch decks started arriving in the hiring manager’s office.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
Some went a step further, locating hair preserved in family scrapbooks that dated back as much as a century.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2026
O’Connor’s monologue focused on two things those unfamiliar with his acting should know about him: that he has a reputation as a “soft boy,” someone who embroiders, scrapbooks and gardens like an “average 65-year-old woman.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2025
As Golden began her research, Ana da Silva told her she had some scrapbooks and other artifacts in a couple of boxes.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2025
We cut the small colored figures out of them and paste them into scrapbooks.
From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood
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