plaster
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Jacobs’ residence is constructed from stone and plaster, with a slate roof and copper trim.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026
While there is hope that Rutte's tactics will pay off again in Ankara -- among some there is a sense that it's just a sticking plaster solution.
From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026
When Saint-Gaudens showed a plaster cast of it at the 1900 Paris Exposition, Auguste Rodin, then the most famous sculptor in Europe, stopped before it, removed his hat and stood in silent tribute.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
Inspired by her family’s produce, she cast real corn, strawberries and cherries in plaster, then made a silicone mold to create copies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 1, 2026
Their moon-cast shadows formed lean shapes that stretched and folded, leaped and spun and skated across the cracked plaster.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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And compared with the bronzes, the plasters are especially sensitive, fragile—you’re drawn to protect them, but any touch seems like it would be too much for these waifish bodies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026
Even North Korea, which plasters pictures of leader Kim Jong Un across the country and demands reverence, does not feature him in the passport, which instead depicts sacred Mount Paektu.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
"Lots of things break, lots of things have sticking plasters on them," Jim says.
From BBC ● Dec. 10, 2025
He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
Housewives of a provident turn of mind filled their cupboards with treacle as a medicine for bad air, and with home-made plasters called Flos Unguentorum for the rheumatics and musk- balls to smell.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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In Manila, her face is plastered across a billboard on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, the city’s longest stretch of highway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
The official sponsors of the World Cup pay eye-watering sums to associate brands with the competition, but no doubt end up benefiting financially, with the likes of Adidas and Coca-Cola plastered everywhere.
From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026
Her anguish is shared outside morgues as well as in hospitals, where photos of missing persons are plastered on walls and utility poles, written on handwritten pieces of paper.
From Barron's ● Jun. 30, 2026
Known, an AI-driven dating app, has their branding plastered on a store front in the Marina District in San Francisco.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 28, 2026
A wild-eyed girl whose skull was weirdly plastered with yellow clay to give it the roughness of oak bark.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
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Both sides had poured tens of millions into the campaigns, plastering billboards across Los Angeles.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
Branding was a big part of the event, with Pakistan dubbing the process the "Islamabad Talks", and plastering a logo combining the Pakistani, US and Iranian flags all over the city.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.
From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025
For Sienna, it was a "lucky" experience to tackle bricklaying, joinery, plastering and now plumbing.
From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2025
They are anything but a phlegmatic people, yet they are obdurate, they are pertinacious, they finish plastering joints.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
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