papers has definitions from the field of writing
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[ noun ] (writing) writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature)

Used in print

(Jay C. Harris and John R. Van Wazer, "Detergent...)

The importance of the inorganic constituents in hard surface cleaning has been emphasized in a number of papers .

(Ann Hebson, The Lattimer Legend....)

I have held your papers of manumission since I married Mr._Lattimer '' .

(John Cheever, "The Brigadier and the Golf Widow,"...)

At the end of the room there was a desk heaped with papers , and she began to riffle these , making sighs and and noises of girlish exasperation .

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