paper
noun
a substance made from wood pulp, rags, straw, or other fibrous material, usually in thin sheets, used to bear writing or printing, for wrapping things, etc.
will paper
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future tenseof paper.future tense
Used to express actions, events, or states that have not yet occurred but are expected to happen.
Example Sentences
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Tech likely will paper over those cracks for the time being.
From Barron's ● May 13, 2026
Tuesday’s news will paper over all of this in-fighting for a time.
From Slate ● Dec. 12, 2023
The timing will paper over the losses from the virus, which has killed around 44,000 people in New York state, including concentrations in some New York City neighborhoods in Brooklyn, Queens and the Bronx.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
Whether a fertile land, and the industry of its inhabitants, would not prove inexhaustible funds of real wealth, be the counters for conveying and recording thereof what you will, paper, gold, or silver?
From Querist by Berkeley, George
In default of anything better, they will paper their walls with advertisements of the theater and the circus, and even with pictures from vicious newspapers.
From Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue by Various
