Papers
Papers noun - Writing that provides information (especially information of an official nature).
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Reference
Reference noun - Something mentioned in a text as providing related and especially supporting information.
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Papers and reference are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Papers" instead a noun "Reference".
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Continuity Nod: The papers that Hollis gives Dan to read are probably, or at least possibly, a reference to the less honorable stuff that the Minutemen did in Minutemen.
Source: Comic Book / Before Watchmen -
Cheech and Chong's album Big Bambú had a cover designed as a reference to a well-known brand of rolling papers; the inside of the album contains a single, gigantic paper.
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Apart from a possible reference to The Pickwick Papers, he's a picnic basket made from wicker.
Source: Video Game / Ribbit King
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Reference and Papers. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/papers/reference
Papers & Reference. N.p., 2016. Web. 22 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/papers/reference>.
Reference or Papers. 2016. Accessed July 22, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/papers/reference.
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