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Piker’s mother arrives—they greet each other in Turkish—and she whips up a charcuterie plate that will be picked at all night long.

From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2026

The truck's licence plate was then tracked through automatic plate-reader technology, travelling through Missouri, where local authorities were dispatched to follow.

From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2026

You have enough on your plate and don’t need to get into a months- or years-long battle of wits with your stepmother.

From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026

A decade ago, the footwear giant kicked off the “super shoe” era that revolutionized marathon running with models that featured a springy carbon-fiber plate and superlight energy-returning foam.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2026

I picked up my plate, stared at the watery gray porridge, and handed it silently to her.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

I’d order a selection to share: fresh salads, Moroccan-inspired small plates and whatever is seasonal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

"Sometimes I borrow money, sometimes I sell things from my house," he said, "like an old pot or plates that we never used, gifts that were given to us. I've even had to sell furniture".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

By recognizing the surviving fragments of these ancient structures, scientists can better reconstruct how tectonic plates descended beneath one another, how volcanic arcs shifted, how continental crust grew, and how once-vast oceans eventually closed.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 28, 2026

At a North Carolina cabin, I once envisioned mornings of cinnamon rolls, bacon and porch-side coffee, only to discover approximately three plates and no coffee maker.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2026

I retrieve the carrots and begin dividing them between the plates.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

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

Taken together, the contrast is a little dazzling: a $77 bird plated with sauces for the downtown set, and a $4.99 one hailed as a cornerstone of everyday affordability.

From Salon ● Apr. 26, 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

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

Fitting their plated helmets on their heads they sallied out, Odysseus in the lead.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer

The team selected highly elastic yarns and used a knitting method called plating, which places different yarns on opposite faces of the textile.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

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’m just plating up the pancakes when my grandfather walks into the kitchen.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm