slate
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Everything changed, Garner and numerous other Toluca Lake residents said, the summer day when Universal Studios began running the coaster with a full slate of riders.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026
In some large counties, Jackson won every delegate at stake as a plurality of convention attendees simply voted for the populist Democrat’s slate.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
The effort calls for a blank slate by accepting new designs for seekers, rocket motors and other major components assembled into a missile that could still be fired from existing Patriot launchers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
After sitting out last year’s event, Marvel Studios will return to Hall H on Saturday to showcase its upcoming slate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
The Nielsens’ home is a two-story colonial painted yellow with black shutters and a long slate walkway leading to the front door.
From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline
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Campaigns scrambled to offer their own slates of delegates who they thought would be pledged to them.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
With strong slates of contenders heading into the 2026 Emmys, that could change for both streamers when the nominations are announced July 8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Under Italian corporate rules, shareholders vote for competing slates of directors rather than individual candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Magazines, of course, didn’t originate the longstanding trope of a new year as a site of reinvention, clean slates, new leaves.
From Salon ● Jan. 17, 2026
In the roof there were little chunks of light between the slates.
From "The Magician's Nephew" by C. S. Lewis
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To the joy of many Jackie supporters, news broke Friday that OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman and his wife Anna donated $5.5 million to help purchase land that was slated for development near her family’s nest.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 28, 2026
The studio skipped last year's event, but will be back at the coveted Hall H on Saturday to promote "Avengers: Doomsday," which is slated to premiere in December.
From Barron's ● Jul. 23, 2026
Meta and the other companies settled with a Kentucky school district, averting a trial slated for June.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026
Utz said the founding Rice and Lissette family will still own half of the company upon completion of the deal, slated to close by the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
In 1931 Berkeley president Robert Sproul gave Lawrence this ramshackle campus building, slated for demolition, to house the new 27-inch cyclotron.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
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The Legislature voted this year to ban most private detention facilities in the state, slating the detention center for closure in 2025, when its contract with the federal government ends.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
He added he had "no interest in slating anybody or kicking anybody while they are down" as "it ain't my style".
From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021
However, I’m just not into slating Madonna and not just because I’m heartily sick of everyone else doing so.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2018
This is also the last year that the tactic of slating is likely to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2016
But a fool of a critic took it into his head to give you a thorough slating.
From Rosa Mundi and Other Stories by Dell, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
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