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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

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

"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

Just a few feet before the parked police car is the subway entrance, marked with two tall green lamps and a black placard with the numbers four and six in green circles.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

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

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

Ignatius pushed past her and lumbered down to the car, opening the rear door of the little Renault and climbing in among the placards and piles of pamphlets that covered the seat.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

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

They had placarded the ruins with huge portraits of Stalin and with posters that proclaimed: "The destruction of the German nation is not among the aims of the United Nations."

From Time Magazine Archive

Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

So placarded the Anti-Saloon League during the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Freemasons had this hideous answer placarded in Paris.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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

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 P. Lissagary

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

I venture to think the conjurers unwise in irritating the spiritualists, who are a growing body, by placarding their entertainment as exposés, even though such announcements may "draw" the non-spiritual public.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies




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