placard
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One placard summed up the mood: "Everything's fine, except everything."
From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 2026
One held a placard that said, “These fares don’t keep the wheels of life turning,” according to a video verified by Storyful.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 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
"I still have much to do. I plan to paint every beam and ceiling placard."
From "When the Sea Turned to Silver" by Grace Lin
And all around it, most of the little placards identifying native plants are broken or missing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026
Look closely at the posters, placards and online posts.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 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
In Kyiv, an AFP reporter saw protesters clapping and banging the cardboard placards that became a symbol of last summer's anti-government protests, chanting "shame" and "Fedorov".
From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026
But as the picketing showed no signs of stopping and as the messages on the placards grew more militant, the president became increasingly irritated.
From "1919 The Year That Changed America" by Martin W. Sandler
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
The influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce.
From Time Magazine Archive
Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S.
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
To disregard talent openly placarded and certificated was no longer possible.
From Aspects of Modern Oxford by A. D. (Alfred Denis) Godley
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
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
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
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
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