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  • noun Plural form of papermill.

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Examples

  • This could be a big win for sole practicioners who go up against government papermills.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders 2010

  • Rather, an email printed on a piece of paper from sustainably sourced wood can help keep areas covered in trees raised for the papermills, whereas reading the same email online could require using power sourced from mountaintop-removal coal-mining.

    Going Paperless Is Not As Green As We Might Think | Impact Lab 2010

  • This could be a big win for sole practicioners who go up against government papermills.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Second Circuit Due Process Victory for Connecticut Carry Permit Holders 2010

  • The difficulties in transporting the papermills 'products to the cardboard factories cause delays in the cardboard box plan, which in turn affects the production of condensed milk, drinks, paints, pharmaceutical products, and so forth.

    17TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE ATTACK ON MONCADA BARRAC 1970

  • In the marketing and packaging of our original products I had been forced to acquire papermills and large interests in aluminum and steel; from there the progression to tinmines and rollingmills, to coalfields and railroads, to shippinglines and machineshops was not far.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • I figured it wouldn't be long before the papermills would be hollerin 'for raw materials the way they was turnin' out the paper, so I nosed around a bit an 'bought options on pulpwood land here an' there.

    The Challenge of the North 1921

  • The papermills which called down Cobbett's curses were probably originally powdermills, and were turned to their new uses first in the reign of Queen Anne.

    Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

  • His fellow-citizens, assembled in the Place du Murier, were Cointets 'workpeople from the papermills and printing-house, with a sprinkling of Lucien's old schoolfellows and the clerks in the employ of

    Eve and David Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • His fellow-citizens, assembled in the Place du Murier, were Cointets 'workpeople from the papermills and printing-house, with a sprinkling of Lucien's old schoolfellows and the clerks in the employ of

    Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Rather, an email printed on a piece of paper from sustainably sourced wood can help keep areas covered in trees raised for the papermills, whereas reading the same email online could require using power sourced from mountaintop-removal coal-mining.

    TreeHugger 2010

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