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
"We do not use air conditioning, and this year we did not use the boiler," she said as she held a placard that read "electricity service is a right".
From Barron's ● Jan. 30, 2026
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
I was still staring at the placard, feeling my already teetering world spin me off my feet again.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
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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
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
Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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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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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
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So placarded the Anti-Saloon League during the War.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Before the error was discovered, Paris and the other great towns had been placarded with the incorrect imprints.
From Peeps at Postage Stamps by Stanley Currie Johnson
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
In 1815 he was brought before the Wardmote Inquest of St. Dunstan's for placarding his shop on Sundays, and for carrying on a retail trade as bookseller and stationer, not being a freeman.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
This duty is not confined to registering the information or placarding the house, nor will it be properly performed by merely removing the sick person to a hospital and disinfecting the premises.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
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