placard
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“We don’t forgive or forget,” one placard said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 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
"I wrote on my placard: 'People! Let's stop the war. We bear responsibility for peace on Planet Earth!'"
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
A troupe of schoolchildren visiting its lobby masses in front of a statue with the legend “The Truth Shall Make you Free” and an office placard announces “Suspicion Breeds Confidence.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2025
The door behind her has a placard that says MRS.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
Just a short walk away, protesters marched under placards calling for his ousting as chants demanding an end to the resort project echoed off government buildings.
From Barron's ● Jun. 12, 2026
Some placards at the protests have highlighted the participants' unhappiness about the concession of land to foreign developers, declaring Albania is "not for sale".
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
To make that clear, some participants have been carrying placards calling for the imprisonment of PD leader Sali Berisha – who is facing separate corruption charges – as well as Rama.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
A small group of protesters gathered in central Nairobi on Tuesday, wearing white protective gear and carrying a coffin emblazoned with "Ebola" and placards reading: "Reject Ebola in Kenya".
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Wind and time have worn and smoothed the gate's tiered placards that barely show the old carvings of the five colored clouds of heaven.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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
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
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
On the stage was a chair placarded with Sir Arthur's name.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Commission placarded that all the powers were concentrated in its hands, and feeling the necessity of strengthening itself, invited the municipal council and the club of the National Guard to send three delegates each.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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
It is shown by the disrespectful manner in which individuals are dealt with in your journals—the placarding of public men in sensational headings, the dragging of private people and their affairs into print.
From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various
He squinted back over his shoulders, only to catch sight of a nocturnal "bill-sniper" placarding vulnerable areas with his lithographed laudations of a vaudeville dancing woman.
From Stories from Everybody's Magazine by Various
After this date the expenses did not reach 20,000 francs a week, the expenses of placarding included.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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