plate
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A “golden batter” rule could be deployed to send any hitter to the plate in a key situation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The Brewers have a mantra at the plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 25, 2026
This CPL detection approach can be adapted to many types of systems for analysis of cells, including biological plate readers, microscopes, and cameras.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
With financial support from Biohub, Müller acquired an advanced cryo-EM instrument and equipped it with the new laser phase plate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 22, 2026
Then she got up, cleared her plate, and that was that.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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"It's a very old building, and sometimes the trustees feel like they're trying to keep all the plates spinning, it's very hard at times."
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026
“These offerings not only support repeat traffic but often succeed in driving a higher average ticket as people combine meals from multiple plates or simply add-on to existing entrees,” said JPMorgan analysts.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 26, 2026
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
“I’ll take a few,” I say, grabbing plates and silverware.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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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
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
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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
Series creator Christopher Storer conveys this in the briefest, tightest shots of hands lovingly plating food, as well as in panoramic views of the series as a whole.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
Gold and silver plating of idols and temple figurines, mostly paid for by devotees, is common across temples in India.
From BBC ● Nov. 4, 2025
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
I’m just plating up the pancakes when my grandfather walks into the kitchen.
From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm
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