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plate

[pleyt] / pleɪt /




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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

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

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

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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