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plaster

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




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"But someone has to go through the pain barrier and rip the plaster off."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jacobs’ residence is constructed from stone and plaster, with a slate roof and copper trim.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 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

I flinched at the grisly crack of plaster.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 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

All of the commonly used sanitary equipment such as paper, cotton, surgical masks, and commercial plasters exhibited intrinsic multi-pathway antibacterial activity with rapid responses against a broad spectrum of microbial species.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 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

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

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

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

The official sponsors of the World Cup pay eye-watering sums to associate brands with the competition, but no doubt end up benefiting financially, with the likes of Adidas and Coca-Cola plastered everywhere.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

A billboard plastered with Arletta Paisley’s face smiled down like a Texan angel sent from above just for me.

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

Both sides had poured tens of millions into the campaigns, plastering billboards across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026

Their candidate, Hannah Spencer, was more than an hour late to meet us after getting stuck in traffic on the way back from a plastering course.

From BBC ● Feb. 15, 2026

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

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

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

That day he could smell the pale, almost blue clay the old women used for plastering the walls.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko


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