Paper
Paper adjective - Being something in name or form only.
Usage example: there's a paper boycott of that company's products that nobody seems to be honoring
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Synonyms for Paper
Titular and paper are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Titular" instead an adjective "Paper".
Titular
Titular adjective - Being something in name or form only.
Usage example: he's the titular head of the department, though it's the assistant managers who largely run things around here
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Synonyms for Titular
Paper and titular are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Paper" instead an adjective "Titular".
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Match Cut: In "The Flea and the Acrobat", someone hammering a nail is used to segue into Mike poking a hole into a paper to illustrate the titular "flea/acrobat" metaphor.
Source: Series / Stranger Things - The official report of the titular Amelia's death is that she was caught cheating on an English paper by submitting a plagiarized paper from the Internet, which spurned her into an impulsive suicide.
Source: Out-of-Character Alert - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire had the credits as smoldering bits of paper coming out of the titular goblet.
Source: Creative Closing Credits
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