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[playt] / pleɪt /




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But the new director of news has a lot on her plate.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2026

Then right-hander Roki Sasaki got himself into a bases-loaded situation in the eighth, with Acuña at the plate, but got out of it with a double play.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

The cameras will take a photo of the speeding vehicle’s license plate, with the license plate data used to identify the registered vehicle’s owner on file with the Department of Motor Vehicles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“That’s the memory, that’s the story, that’s the narrative,” she said, rather than, “Here’s a physical plate I’m never going to use.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Each kit has half a paper plate that’s been cut down the middle, plus little black stickers for the seeds and two crayons—one pink, one green.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Zhang allegedly later sent two license plates to the official, which Holt said were registered to the target of their surveillance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026

Repetitive stress injuries in the growth plates of children are known as “Little League elbow” and “Little League shoulder.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

After she downsized, she opened her cupboard and showed him four plates, four saucers, four cups and four bowls.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

Sharon Gannon's son, Jason Wallis, died in a crash where hidden registration plates were involved.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

I mumble something about needing to go to the bathroom and slide out of the booth as Jen lays out clean plates and forks and tops up our water glasses.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

Shohei Ohtani plated a run on a force-out, Mookie Betts drove in Kim on a sacrifice fly to tie the score and Freddie Freeman bounced a double off the right-field wall to drive in Ohtani.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026

The fossil, which comes from a plated dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago, is also helping researchers propose a new explanation for how stegosaurs evolved and spread across the world.

From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026

After the Americans tied the score in the bottom of the eighth, reliever Garrett Whitlock surrendered a double to Eugenio Suárez in the ninth that plated the go-ahead run.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 2026

What follows is a steady stream of beautifully plated courses, served at a comfortable pace.

From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026

So much of the decor was plated in gold, it was as if King Midas himself had been a guest here and carelessly laid his hands on everything within reach.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

She once filmed herself plating an elaborate dessert—a petit gâteau in the shape of a Christmas ornament from the Miami bakery Bachour—only to have it slip off her spatula and break.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026

Each of the first seven hitters in the lineup recorded an RBI, with Hernández and Max Muncy plating runs in the fifth before Mookie Betts and Freeman hit back-to-back RBI singles in the sixth.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2025

Instead of plating a large piece of chicken with sweet potatoes and rice on the side, transform those same ingredients into a sweet potato risotto with chicken.

From Salon ● Mar. 30, 2025

But civilians here have no armour plating to shield them, and many Lebanese no longer have a roof over their heads.

From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2024

I hit my wristwatch, and metal plating spiraled out into a thick bronze shield.

From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan




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