placard
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"Let's occupy the streets, like in France!" a placard waved by one young female demonstrator urged, referring to the ongoing mass protests in that country for better classroom conditions.
From Barron's ● Oct. 15, 2026
Her pastries are displayed gallery-style on individual plates with placard descriptions, and customers can eat them in a serene ground-floor dining area or get them to-go.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
"Free our president," read a placard held by a man with a red flannel shirt which bore the image of Maduro's predecessor and mentor, late socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez.
From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026
A placard listing Penning’s high school-recruiting rating, and the schools he attended, had yet to be placed atop his stall next to long snapper Josh Harris.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 9, 2025
Bow-tie man, who was holding the “LIBRARY?” placard, was standing in the wrong spot.
From "Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics" by Chris Grabenstein
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And all around it, most of the little placards identifying native plants are broken or missing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Look closely at the posters, placards and online posts.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
The council’s signage was then replaced with placards urging residents to fight back against the parking plans.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
"They cannot exclude Maria Corina Machado, because she is a fundamental leader for all of us," declared Davila amid a sea of placards and flags.
From Barron's ● Jul. 31, 2026
He was responsible for the replacement of burnt-out light bulbs, and for the cleanliness of the church, and the care of the Bibles, and the hymn-books, and the placards on the walls.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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The Ben Crump Law website is placarded with numerous recent cable news appearances, many conducted from his Tallahassee home during quarantine.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 18, 2020
This Fascisti bill, placarded throughout the small village of Arona in northern Italy, resulted in a rush of the populace en masse to the polls.
From Time Magazine Archive
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It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence the Langley machine, placarded as the first heavier than air machine.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away.
From Time Magazine Archive
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But the sturdy merchant, protected by viceroyal authority, was not to be conquered by so immaterial a thing as a prelate's curse placarded on the door of a cathedral.
No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The 'folly of the Cross,' the placarding of our human weakness, is something more intimate than the mere stripping off of outward paraphernalia.
From Time Magazine Archive
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O bragging, advertising, placarding, circular-scattering, auctioneering, humbuging world!
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
Michel, however, advised a beginning, but simply by placarding Article 68 of the Constitution.
From The History of a Crime The Testimony of an Eye-Witness by Victor Hugo
The company was sending men over Market Street, picking out the few individuals who owned vacant lots, leasing them for the month and preparing to justify the placarding and patrolling that already had been done.
From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White
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