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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

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

The door behind her has a placard that says MRS.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

While Wangchuk is not at the protest site any longer, many of the placards and posters have slogans about his fast and drawings of him.

From BBC Jul. 23, 2026

The protesters, many of them carrying the Ukrainian flags and placards expressing support for Fedorov, gathered in the capital for the second day running to protest the decision, an AFP journalist saw.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

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

“AMANDLA! AWETHU! AMANDLA! AWETHU!” we chanted and waved placards.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

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

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

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

When the miners went out on the street that morning they found the town placarded with the notices, as directed by President Carrhart.

From The Iron Boys as Foremen or, Heading the Diamond Drill Shift by James R. Mears

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

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

Had all their speech-making, placarding, bill-posting and the canvassing of factories, blocks, and primaries—had all their little savings, their risk and personal sacrifice accomplished anything?

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer

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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