placard
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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
“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
Virgin and Child #1, she read on the placard, and she allowed herself to imagine for a moment that the child in Mia’s arms was her.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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
Young people draped in Indian flags queued for food, painted placards and posed for photographs, while rows of police and paramilitary personnel sealed every road to parliament around them.
From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026
At a vigil last weekend, community members held placards in solidarity and wept.
From Barron's ● Jul. 5, 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
There was a crowd protesting I don’t know what, shaking placards in the air.
From "Dreaming in Cuban" by Cristina García
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
Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S.
From Time Magazine Archive
The influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
A Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!"
From Time Magazine Archive
The town was placarded with the white oblongs reserved for Government proclamations.
From A Tatter of Scarlet Adventurous Episodes of the Commune in the Midi 1871 by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
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
No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall.
From Time Magazine Archive
It contented itself with placarding the manifesto, and neglected the smallest precautions, even that of occupying the railway station.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
"But there is no use in placarding her," said Halicarnassus.
From Gala-days by Gail Hamilton
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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