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  • noun Plural form of aper.

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Examples

  • Another West Virginia race, the hilly Ogden Newsp apers 20K Classic Run, which takes place over Memorial Day weekend in Wheeling, is making the change to a half-marathon next year.

    15 Miles Is the Loneliest Race 2010

  • Yesterday, Williams continued his interior monologue, he tad fled into a newsreel theater for a brief respite from end - 'ss appointments at magazines, radio stations and news - apers, and on the screen he had seen a man ready to leap from the George Washington Bridge.

    The Machineries of Joy Bradbury, Ray, 1920- 1949

  • 'Only one day more -- and I must save the pa-apers!'

    The Uphill Climb B. M. Bower 1905

  • Here it is in th 'pa-apers:' Misther Biv'ridge said th 'st-t-m-nts iv th' hon'rable sinitor fr'm Texas was unw-r-nted. '

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I read be th 'pa-apers in this conthrovarsy, that if a man can't show down a bank account that wud make Andhrew Carnaygie feel like goin' back to wurruk, he might as well make up his mind to remain

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • We'll be readin 'in th' pa-apers wan iv these days: 'Alonzo Higgins, th' runner up in las 'year's champeenship, showed gr-reat improvement in this year's brick layin' tournymint at Newport, an 'won handily with about tin square feet to spare.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Now th 'pa-apers with th' assistance iv th 'officers iv th' law has discovered that th 'lady took a boat ride with a gintleman frind in th' summer iv sixty-two, that she wanst quarreled with her husband about th 'price iv a hat, that wan iv her lower teeth is plugged, that she wears a switch an' that she weeps whin she sees her childher.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'judge that thried th' case retires to a well-arned job with a railrood comp'ny, th 'jury has ceased to look f'r their pitchers in th' pa-apers an 'th' insurance comp'nies insure young Cyanide's life f'r the lowest known premyum.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • Th 'physicians an' surgeons are all down town editin 'th' pa-apers.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

  • I rayceived siveral offers through a migaphone to write an article about what ye say in ye'er sleep f'r th 'pa-apers, but I declined thim, awaitin' insthructions fr'm ye.

    Observations By Mr. Dooley Finley Peter Dunne 1901

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