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The department hasn’t found any evidence that its automated license plate reader data have been shared with any immigration enforcement agency, said Dean Gialamas, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Information Technology Bureau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
If you do that, you might find yourself spending weekends redoing much of the work you thought you had removed from your plate.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026
Canteen staff also sometimes help with "an extra plate, a little fruit compote -- something to make it a bit easier", Abdel said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
For now, the research offers an intriguing possibility: Improving liver health may not always require changing what is on your plate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Then she got up, cleared her plate, and that was that.
From "Ida B" by Katherine Hannigan
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By the time the servers get all the plates out of the catering kitchen, the steak or fish is often cold.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
The chips are supposed to flag stolen cars and trucks, but because the new plates are valid, the vehicles are never listed as stolen.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026
That might make you more vulnerable to foot fractures, according to a 2023 analysis of high-stack running shoes with carbon-fiber plates published in Sports Medicine, with Tenforde as the lead author.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Discharges seep into the water, flow into the nearby river that irrigates farmland, and end up in the fruit and vegetables on our plates."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Arkansas doesn’t require front license plates, so the number of cars from far-flung origins like Washington, Montana, and Ontario stick out.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Shohei Ohtani plated a run on a force-out, Mookie Betts drove in Kim on a sacrifice fly to tie the score and Freddie Freeman bounced a double off the right-field wall to drive in Ohtani.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
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
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
But with its plated chest and winged shoulders, the creature that now emerged from the shell could only be one thing.
From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville
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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
Both are used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction, and photography.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
It was a double-decker, with armor plating, bulletproof windows, and solar panels on the roof.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
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