Paperlike

Word PAPERLIKE
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A paperlike launch is a product launch that seems like a paper launch, but not actually is. The product is released on the day of the launch, however, due to outstanding demand and lack of supply, not many products eventually get shipped. Urban Dictionary

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The word "paperlike" in example sentences

Taro looked down at his emaciated arms, the tendons and bone visible through the paperlike skin. ❋ Nick Lake (2010)

For years, researchers have worked on thin, paperlike displays that can be folded, rolled or sewn into the sleeve of your hoodie. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Version 1.0 being the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader, version 2.0 the promised Plastic Logic reader and maybe Kindle 2.0, and version 3.0 a fully flexible, very thin, paperlike, color reader: basically a reusable newspaper. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She stood for a moment, peeling off an outer layer of protective paperlike clothing and leaving behind a pair of green scrubs. ❋ J.A. JANCE (2009)

Both e-book readers use the same E Ink technology for their main screen: a pale gray, matte surface that looks a bit like an Etch A Sketch but displays text (and monochrome images, with 16 levels of gray) in far more readable fashion than an LCD, thanks to its paperlike opacity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

• Unique paperlike display, read even in bright sunlight based on eink ❋ Martyn Daniels (2008)

Those included several small, torn bags made of a silvery, somewhat paperlike material. ❋ Cook, Glen (2002)

She opened one and pulled out the slim sheaf of paperlike plastic, amused at the novelty. ❋ Tiedemann, Mark W. (2000)

Tossed back into the safe, the envelope landed with non-paperlike clunk. ❋ Huff, Tanya (1993)

They were all gathered around a table, staring at a paperlike document that had been spread out in front of them. ❋ Clarke, Arthur C. (1992)

Orun had shown them the Mercan equivalent of books—small cubes like Orun's map of Mercan that unfolded into sequential sheets of paperlike substance with printing on the sheets in the as-yet-undeciphered Mercan written symbols that looked so much like Arabic script on Earth. ❋ Lee Correy (1990)

Layers upon layers of paperlike sheets are superimposed upon each other, their edges often "cropping out" on sloping surfaces; and since these edges, according to the curvatures of the surfaces, run in wavy lines, the total aspect is very often that of "moire" silk. ❋ Frederick Philip Grove (N/A)

Of late a dear little coquettish high-heeled pair of outdoor shoes with thin, paperlike soles, bought by Daisy for her trip to London, had ended the row. ❋ Marie Belloc Lowndes (1907)

The earliest writing consists of pictographs which were traced on stone, wood, bone, skins, and various paperlike substances. ❋ Unknown (1877)

[NVIDIA's] release of the 3090 [Ti] really was a [paperlike launch], bro. ❋ Jortpepe (2022)

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