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placard

[plak-ahrd, -erd] / ˈplæk ɑrd, -ərd /


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“We don’t forgive or forget,” one placard said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

"I'd love it if someone paid for a placard on one of the benches that said, 'Will you marry me?'," she laughs.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

"Thank you for your compassion and love towards everyone you cared for," read one placard, balanced among bouquets, wreaths and other tributes.

From Barron's Jan. 26, 2026

City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman was arrested for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation, in this case Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2025

I was still staring at the placard, feeling my already teetering world spin me off my feet again.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

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

In Kyiv, an AFP reporter saw protesters clapping and banging the cardboard placards that became a symbol of last summer's anti-government protests, chanting "shame" and "Fedorov".

From Barron's Jul. 18, 2026

Another soldier, Natasha, said the protesters with their makeshift cardboard placards, were a long way from the daily brutality of the front line.

From BBC Jul. 17, 2026

At a vigil last weekend, community members held placards in solidarity and wept.

From Barron's Jul. 5, 2026

Menu-balloons whizzed around like miniature sky-ferries, and they held placards advertising tonight's specials.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

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

On the stage was a chair placarded with Sir Arthur's name.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manhattan's independent radio station WNEW, convinced that listeners want mostly music and news, has placarded buses and taxis with the promise that there are "no sob stories. . . no horror stories" on WNEW.

From Time Magazine Archive

The influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Chattaway had his retaliation; he offered a reward for the recovery of the incendiary, Rupert Trevlyn, and the walls for miles round were placarded with handbills.

From Trevlyn Hold by Mrs. Henry Wood

No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

This duty is not confined to registering the information or placarding the house, nor will it be properly performed by merely removing the sick person to a hospital and disinfecting the premises.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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

As the administration of the Rue Pagevin threw obstacles into the way of placarding the decrees and proclamations, Debock advised the workmen bill-stickers to associate themselves.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary




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