plate
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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