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Paper is a thin, flat material produced by the compression of fibres.

Paper(s) or The Paper may also refer to:

Publishing and academia

• Newspaper, a periodical publication
• Paper (magazine), an American monthly fashion and culture magazine
• The Paper (newspaper), a digital newspaper from Shanghai, China
• The Paper (American newspaper), a 1960s underground newspaper published in East Lansing, Michigan, United States
• Papers (software), a reference management package
• Scholarly paper, in academic publishing, a work published in a peer-reviewed journal
  • Scientific paper
• Term paper, a research paper written by a student as a school assignment

Society, government, and business

• Aide-mémoire or non-paper, a document circulated in a meeting or summit for discussion purposes
• Banknote, or paper money
• Commercial paper, a type of unsecured promissory note
• Document, a physical representation of a body of information
  • Legal instrument or legal document
  • Identity documents
  • Breed registry or pedigreed animal documentation
• Paper (company), an education technology software company
• White paper, an authoritative report by a government or other organization
  • Green paper, in Europe, a non-committal report that may lead to a white paper
• Papers (information leaks), a popular term for leaks of financial or governmental data

Popular culture

Film and television

• The Paper (film), a 1994 film directed by Ron Howard and starring Michael Keaton
• Paper (film), a 2010 Turkish film
• The Paper (2008 TV series), an American reality show
• "The Paper" (SpongeBob SquarePants)
• Papers (film), a 2025 thriller drama film directed by Arturo Montenegro
• Novine, a 2016 Croatian TV series translated into English as The Paper by international broadcasters
• Paper, a 2020 Indian web series by Ullu
• The Paper (2025 TV series), an American comedy series created by Greg Daniels

Music

• Paper (album), an album by Rich Robinson
• "Paper" (Krayzie Bone song), 1999
• "Paper" (Queen Latifah song), 1998
• "Paper" (Svala song), 2017
• "Papers" (song), a 2009 song by Usher
• "Paper", a song by Talking Heads from Fear of Music
• "Paper", a song by Falz from Moral Instruction

Other media

• Yomiko Readman or "The Paper", a fictional character in the Japanese light-novel series Read or Die and related manga and OVA
• Paper, a fictional character from Rock Paper Scissors
• Papers, a play by Allan Stratton

Other

• Precision Array for Probing the Epoch of Reionization (PAPER), a radio telescope
• Facebook Paper, a defunct news portal, released 2014
• Dropbox Paper, a web-based document editing tool, released 2015
• Paper (king) (c. 14th century), ruler of Makuria

See also

• Papier (disambiguation)
• Papër, a village in Albania
• Papar (disambiguation)