placard
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“We don’t forgive or forget,” one placard said.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 6, 2026
But lately, more of the books rising to the top wear the placard noticeably looser.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 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
"I wrote on my placard: 'People! Let's stop the war. We bear responsibility for peace on Planet Earth!'"
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
“Treblinka,” I called, seeing the placard at last.
From "Prisoner B-3087" by Alan Gratz
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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
Small groups of demonstrators, who were waving Kenyan flags, carrying placards and holding a coffin with the word "Ebola" written on the side, were demanding the plan be reversed.
From BBC ● Jun. 9, 2026
Many held placards reading: "We are Europe" and portraits of jailed former president Mikheil Saakashvili, who pushed for close ties with the West while in office.
From Barron's ● May 26, 2026
Metal placards installed near each piece feature a scannable QR code that reveals more about the artist.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 8, 2026
A few carried placards the wording of which I couldn’t distinguish.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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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
Anti-aircraft guns blazed at imaginary targets with blank shells while firemen sprayed make-believe fires and first-aid crews bandaged the sound arms and legs of placarded "wounded."
From Time Magazine Archive
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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
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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
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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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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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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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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
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
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 Lissagary, P.
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