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Male with silver paper? (3)

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I believe the answer is:

mag

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'paper?' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to communication as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's a link between them I don't understand?

'male with silver' is the wordplay.
'male' becomes 'm' (common abbreviation).
'with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'silver' becomes 'Ag' (Ag is the chemical symbol for silver).
'm'+'ag'='MAG'

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(Other definitions for mag that I've seen before include "Periodical (abbrev.)" , "Publication" , "Periodical (abbr)" .)

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