placard
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“We don’t forgive or forget,” one placard said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
One woman held a placard saying "there's no time for fear" and a child brought pictures he had drawn of Magyar.
From Barron's ● Apr. 10, 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
Sometimes with a microphone, sometimes with a placard, if Mags was part of the mob, it got the press interested - and the media appearances kept coming.
From BBC ● Aug. 7, 2025
A small placard was propped beside the poster.
From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu
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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
The same individual also made off with four bronze placards from the benches at nearby Patriot Point, police said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026
Trade unionists held placards with slogans such as “Our jobs aren’t your balance-sheet adjustment,” according to people present.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026
Dozens of people also paraded through the village on "salengs" -- scooters with sidecars used locally to transport coconuts -- brandishing placards featuring images of healthy, smiling livers.
From Barron's ● Aug. 3, 2026
Rubbish and abandoned placards lay in the dirt.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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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
Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The Nebraska Senate defeated a bill providing that the Ten Commandments should be placarded in every public school of the state.
From Time Magazine Archive
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C. I. O. In Manhattan, to inform the public that they wanted a closed shop, C. I. O. cleaners & dyers released 500 placarded balloons from Times Square hotel windows.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Three forms of manifesto--to be printed and placarded so soon as Dublin should be taken.
From My Lords of Strogue, Vol. II (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union by Lewis Wingfield
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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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
O bragging, advertising, placarding, circular-scattering, auctioneering, humbuging world!
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
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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