scrap paper
noun
: paper that is partly used or is of poor quality but that be used for unimportant things
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The documents that Trump used as scrap paper were at Mar-a-Lago when the FBI raided the resort in August 2022, but agents did not find them.
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Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
On a piece of scrap paper, draw lines to represent the individual pieces of tape, then map out how to connect then with the shortest possible distance between the ends.
—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
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Tori Otten, The New Republic, 20 Sep. 2023
On a piece of scrap paper, draw lines to represent the individual pieces of tape, then map out how to connect then with the shortest possible distance between the ends.
—Bradley Ford, Popular Mechanics, 28 Feb. 2023
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“Scrap paper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/scrap%20paper. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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