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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.

From Science Daily Mar. 22, 2026

Scientists identified a partial hand stencil surrounded by much younger paintings.

From Science Daily Mar. 22, 2026

On the wafer’s surface, a chemical substrate called a photoresist reacts to the light, and etches the stencil pattern into the silicon.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 2026

Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

But who is the man behind the stencils?

From BBC Mar. 18, 2026

Its photocopiers didn’t need awkward stencils to serve as the master copy.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 15, 2025

She placed stencils of the tattoo on Althouse’s arm before they got started that morning, tweaking the tattoo size and its placement.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 3, 2025

On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.

From Slate Sep. 12, 2025

I wonder if they created drawings and stencils first, or if they just grabbed their cans of spray paint and improvised.

From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day

The artist known for spray-painting stenciled images of rats and protesters onto buildings around the world has also worked hard to remain anonymous.

From The Wall Street Journal May 21, 2026

Bring on CGI palm trees, palm trees light-projected onto freeway walls, stenciled onto the sides of buildings.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 20, 2025

The next record in the archival files is his business card, crisp and rectangular with the words “The Baron Georg von Trapp” stenciled in the center.

From Slate Jan. 26, 2025

Brandon Stirling Baker lit the piece with elegance, his scenic design putting stenciled numbers on the wings that suggested a warehouse or maybe an old gym.

From New York Times May 3, 2024

Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull.

From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline

It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 17, 2025

Rising to fame by creating stencilled designs around his home city of Bristol in the early 1990s, despite worldwide following, Banksy's identity remains unknown.

From BBC May 17, 2023

A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."

From Reuters Mar. 16, 2023

Next to that is the stencilled face of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, holding up two fingers in a V-for-victory gesture.

From Seattle Times Feb. 23, 2023

The boundaries of Ngoma’s Tropic Region were stencilled in dark, wide brown and swept about a gorgeous interior labelled “jungle” and “desert” and “here be Elephants and all Manner of Strange Beasts.”

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov

The nanocryotron was created by using electron beam lithography, a kind of stenciling technique that uses a beam of electrons to remove a polymer film to expose a particular region of interest.

From Science Daily Mar. 11, 2024

The ministry also accused Russia of being behind the stenciling of Jewish stars last November on walls in Paris and its suburbs, causing alarm about the safety of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.

From Seattle Times Feb. 12, 2024

Matteo Cunsolo, a baker in northern Italy, has been stenciling the word "peace" onto loaves of bread, and the money he makes from selling the baked good has gone toward charity, the Associated Press reports.

From Fox News Mar. 21, 2022

But the interior — illuminated with the natural light of more than 900 windows, boasting a 108-foot high rotunda, soaring archways, ornate Moorish-inspired stenciling — comes as a surprise.

From Washington Post Nov. 17, 2021

The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails.

From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins

Famed for his stencilling combining humour with graffiti, as well as his 2010 Academy award-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy's identity has long remained a mystery.

From BBC Jun. 30, 2022

These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs.

From BBC Dec. 15, 2021

Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.

From The Guardian Jun. 1, 2012

For many years, Spero suffered from arthritis: hand-painting gave way to stencilling and home-made printing.

From The Guardian Mar. 2, 2011

The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway




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