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plaster

[plas-ter, plah-ster] / ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər /




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Nikos Mavroudis, a 17-year-old high school student in Athens' Exarchia neighbourhood, said the money could be better spent on his school, where chunks of plaster are falling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Using about $500 of his savings, he paid two guys to plaster the city with more than 300 fliers.

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

I plaster a big fat smile across my face and go back downstairs.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

While welcoming the move on standing charges, Dawn says ministers had been "trying to put sticking plasters over gaping wounds", which were "not fixing the problems".

From BBC ● Oct. 25, 2026

In the plasters, his details are sharper, his jagged surfaces dangerous, his faces more emotive.

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

He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

She grabbed for the nearest piece of cloth to shoo them away and her heart froze with terror as she connected her daughter's evening baths with the mustard plasters that rolled onto the floor.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

His face is plastered on billboards, on electrolyte drinks and across social media.

From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026

There's a large print-out of Helen Haines plastered onto the window of her office - anyone delivering flowers for her gets a big smile back as they look up and walk away.

From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026

About the theory that she would only be engaging with these people if she were plastered?

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 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

“The last time I helped you ‘mobilize the student body,’ I got my face plastered on everyone’s computer screens.”

From "Here to Stay" by Sara Farizan

Branding was a big part of the event, with Pakistan dubbing the process the "Islamabad Talks", and plastering a logo combining the Pakistani, US and Iranian flags all over the city.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

"I have a croft house I am trying to do up, so I might do some plastering."

From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2025

Beyond the additional house chores, Krasinski said Blunt had joked about another way to celebrate his new title: plastering the walls of their Brooklyn home with his magazine cover.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

We roared up the road, plastering our faces to the car windows, looking for any sign of our wayward Auk.

From "October Sky" by Homer Hickam


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