plaster
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Using about $500 of his savings, he paid two guys he found on Craigslist to plaster the city with more than 300 flyers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026
Inside, local social worker Satpal Narwat points out the plaster falling from the ceiling.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 15, 2026
The Maryville coach chose “spoofhounds” after the ugly, plaster of Paris dog from a recent carnival.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
She was still at the hospital in a plaster parish cast.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
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And compared with the bronzes, the plasters are especially sensitive, fragile—you’re drawn to protect them, but any touch seems like it would be too much for these waifish bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Even North Korea, which plasters pictures of leader Kim Jong Un across the country and demands reverence, does not feature him in the passport, which instead depicts sacred Mount Paektu.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
The products included everything from pet food, Band-Aid plasters and mouthwash, to Australian favourites like Arnott's Tim Tam biscuits, Bega Cheese and Kellogg's cereal.
From BBC ● Sep. 22, 2024
He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
In fleeting clear spells of lucidity, when Amaranta would bring him his meals he would tell her what bothered him most and would accept her sucking glasses and mustard plasters in a docile way.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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About the theory that she would only be engaging with these people if she were plastered?
From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026
Antonella Nistorescu displayed horrific video images of the crash with the word “preventable” plastered across the screen in red letters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
Had they been plastered, clad in ceramic, or built in raw concrete, they would have lent tangible weight and heft to the vaults.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
In Nanjie, countless murals of the former Chinese leader are plastered around the village.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Instead of large glass windows plastered with sale signs, these stores had small panes, like house windows.
From "Homecoming" by Cynthia Voigt
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Since early Thursday, BNP backers started gathering in the capital, plastering the streets with banners and festoons bearing images of Rahman.
From Barron's ● Dec. 25, 2025
Clinging to the chassis of an airplane with the wind plastering his hair to his forehead and oscillating his gums like bulldog in a convertible, he is, in fact, exceedingly flapped.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 15, 2025
To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
For Sienna, it was a "lucky" experience to tackle bricklaying, joinery, plastering and now plumbing.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
“We’re going to start plastering, so don’t move or talk. We don’t want it to crack.”
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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