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plate

[playt] / pleɪt /




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The officers shared the shocking recording Wednesday in hopes of identifying the driver, whose license plate cannot be discerned in the clip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

The officers shared the shocking recording this week in hopes of identifying the driver, whose license plate cannot be discerned in the clip.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“That’s the memory, that’s the story, that’s the narrative,” she said, rather than, “Here’s a physical plate I’m never going to use.”

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

The El Paso City Council responded with an ordinance requiring future contracts for license plate readers to be approved by the council.

From Salon ● Sep. 28, 2026

“Yes, ma’am,” I said back, still polishing the plate that was between us.

From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan

After she downsized, she opened her cupboard and showed him four plates, four saucers, four cups and four bowls.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 29, 2026

"Our hope is that by turning surplus food into these free community meals we're doing more than just filling plates for an evening," Aoun said.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

At one test site, just outside London near the Dartford Crossing, it has recorded an average of more than 1,000 of the ghost plates a day over several months.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

The right way to fix the holes in the floor is kind of abstract, while the screws and plates in my utility closet are right there.

From Salon ● Sep. 27, 2026

Onto this someone in the hall was placing tin plates filled with a steaming gruel.

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

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

After more strolls along the tundra, I dine at Grill It restaurant, where winter appears plated rather than resisted.

From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026

So much of the decor was plated in gold, it was as if King Midas himself had been a guest here and carelessly laid his hands on everything within reach.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

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

Max Muncy supplied their lone early RBIs, plating one run on a fourth-inning double and another on a sixth-inning groundout.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 4, 2025

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

His neck plating was partially fused, melted from the explosion, but the dragon didn’t seem to be in danger of crashing immediately.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan




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