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plate

[playt] / pleɪt /




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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

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

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

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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