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plaster

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




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She suggests looking for affordable vintage oil paintings, exhibition posters or framed sketches at antique markets, then securing them with command strips so they can be removed without leaving holes in the plaster.

From BBC ● Aug. 26, 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

“No trespassing” signs plaster trees on the perimeter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 7, 2026

The pole holders line their thick bamboo reeds flat on the floor, and we plaster on big smiles.

From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio

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

"Teachers have been putting sticking plasters on education for too long," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

At first, his tracks were posted anonymously on SoundCloud, as a way to separate the art from the dozens of images of him seasonally plastered in Supreme advertisements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In Nanjie, countless murals of the former Chinese leader are plastered around the village.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

Ever since Elizabeth told me Mr. Montgomery’s nickname, I can’t help but picture him as a truck with a narrow, expressionless grill plastered on its front.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

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

At home in this milieu, Parker mastered the art of grassroots promotion, of pulling in large crowds by plastering the town with loud, hyperbolic placards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

Then suddenly, WHAM!, the engine started, kicking like a mule and plastering us up against our shoulder straps.

From "Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story" by Michael Collins


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