plate
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The Brewers have a mantra at the plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
Turning the laser phase plate concept into working technology required years of engineering.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Unlike an e-bicycle, the e-motorcycle requires a valid motorcycle license to use on the street, including a DMV registration, a license plate, insurance and full motorcycle equipment.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 21, 2026
Inside the marble ballroom of the Las Vegas–ready restaurant on Long Island, the award ceremony flies by as I work my way through a plate of samosas and nurse a mango lassi.
From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2026
I rip the paper into tiny pieces, like Teddy did with the paper plate watermelon, and toss them into the trash.
From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison
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Earth's outer shell is divided into enormous tectonic plates that slowly move across the planet.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
But now, with rising prices, the spread of appetite-curbing GLP-1s, and the ubiquity of small plates, entrées are getting left behind more and more.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
Last week, Prudencio Rivera, 31, was driving home from a night shift at a poultry farm when he noticed a truck with Texas plates following him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
By the time the servers get all the plates out of the catering kitchen, the steak or fish is often cold.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
A few minutes later, SJ brought over two plates, one in each hand, and set them down in front of them.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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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
Much of the buzz has centered on the featherweight, carbon-fiber plated Adidas running shoes both Sawe and Kejelcha wore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 2026
Within a few years the academy switched to a lighter tin-based alloy known as Britannia metal, plated in layers of copper, nickel silver and gold.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2026
What follows is a steady stream of beautifully plated courses, served at a comfortable pace.
From Salon ● Mar. 7, 2026
Now we just call it “Millenium,” and it is a stretch of bare land and several rusted metal sculptures—one an abstract, plated mammoth, another shaped like a lima bean that dwarfs me in size.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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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
The iron plating was now so hot it steamed.
From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan
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