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Felt, fabric, ribbon or twine to cover your cardboard tubes
Embellishments to decorate your napkin rings – leaves, buttons, beads, faux flowers
Craft glue or a hot glue gun (with adult supervision)
Binder clips or paper clips (optional)
Steps:
Cover your tube sections with your choice of materials.
—Alexis Simmerman, Austin American-Statesman, 27 Nov. 2024
Gift with a complementary paper clip necklace for a trendy layered effect.
—Bea McMonagle, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
And then there’s Nick Bostrom’s famous example of a paper clip factory run by an AI, whose goal is to make as many paper clips as possible.
—IEEE Spectrum, 17 Sep. 2019
All could be played with just a few common household items: pencil and paper, coins, colored pens, standard dice, Goldfish crackers, paper clips, your hands, and occasionally an Internet connection.
—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 19 Sep. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1851, in the meaning defined above
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“Paper clip.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/paper%20clip. Accessed 25 Dec. 2024.
Kids Definition
paper clip
noun
: a length of wire bent into flat loops that is used to hold papers together
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