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plate

[playt] / pleɪt /




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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

"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

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

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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