plate
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These findings point to another possible strategy: changing the composition of the food on the plate rather than simply reducing the amount of food eaten.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 17, 2026
Dent brings her experience as a critic, considering the wider story behind what is on the plate.
From BBC ● Aug. 17, 2026
Flock Safety claims over 5,000 law enforcement agencies use its license plate readers to help locate missing persons, catch thieves and identify suspicious vehicles.
From Salon ● Aug. 17, 2026
Late in the season, he jammed his left elbow sliding into home plate, jarring loose some bone chips.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 16, 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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Indonesia is prone to earthquakes and volcanic activity, lying along the meeting point of three major tectonic plates.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Out in the parking lot, I hung out for some time before another car arrived, a blue Chevy Silverado with Illinois plates.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
Flock has more than 12,000 customers and has touted scanning 20 billion license plates a month.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026
His husband is an incredible baker, and he and Scott were always bringing over plates of deliciousness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
In a little while the plates were collected and the pass-through in the door slammed shut.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
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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
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
It is plated with 99.9% pure platinum and is marketed as “invite-only,” though anyone can request access on Robinhood’s website.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
Denver, the capital of Colorado, has a capitol with a gold- plated dome.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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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
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
The chemical, a white crystal-like solid with a faint almond odour, is used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction, and photography.
From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2024
The tank holds hexavalent chromium, a reddish-brown solution widely used in plating that has been shown to cause lung cancer in humans if inhaled.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
I hit my wristwatch, and metal plating spiraled out into a thick bronze shield.
From "The Titan's Curse" by Rick Riordan
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