stencil
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The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
In the middle, light bounces off something like a stencil patterned with the chip’s billions of transistors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
"Using the burnt material that remains on the surface of the casing as a stencil, we can deposit specific materials in between the gaps, allowing for the visualisation," said Dr. McKeever.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Its photocopiers didn’t need awkward stencils to serve as the master copy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
Stewart offers several stencils and designs — 41 to be exact! — to help you decorate your porch pumpkins like a pro.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025
On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
Art about bodies is almost as old as the body: Some of the oldest art in the world consists of simple stencils of hands in ancient caves.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2024
She’s on a hot-pink Electra with brightly colored stencils on the fenders that remind me of one of the modern art paintings we saw on our class trip to the Norton Museum last year.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
The artist known for spray-painting stenciled images of rats and protesters onto buildings around the world has also worked hard to remain anonymous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Bring on CGI palm trees, palm trees light-projected onto freeway walls, stenciled onto the sides of buildings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 20, 2025
The next record in the archival files is his business card, crisp and rectangular with the words “The Baron Georg von Trapp” stenciled in the center.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025
Beside a real and severely pruned cherry tree, the artist stenciled a small figure holding a pressure hose.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 27, 2024
Underneath, stenciled on the glass doors: NO SOLICITORS.
From "The Lightning Thief" by Rick Riordan
It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
By analysing the marks in the woman's skin, the team believe that the tattoos were probably stencilled onto the skin before being tattooed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
And with no place for neutral Tests at Lord's on the honours board since they were refurbished in 2018 it may well be stencilled on there permanently.
From BBC ● Jun. 11, 2025
A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023
The boundaries of Ngoma’s Tropic Region were stencilled in dark, wide brown and swept about a gorgeous interior labelled “jungle” and “desert” and “here be Elephants and all Manner of Strange Beasts.”
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
The nanocryotron was created by using electron beam lithography, a kind of stenciling technique that uses a beam of electrons to remove a polymer film to expose a particular region of interest.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
The ministry also accused Russia of being behind the stenciling of Jewish stars last November on walls in Paris and its suburbs, causing alarm about the safety of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
When he visits the wall that cordons off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, he adds to its profusion of graffiti, stenciling onto it a Sumerian phrase cribbed from that Mesopotamian pillar.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
On the front read a Bulldog-yellow-colored stenciling of the words “Dog Food.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023
We’d chosen blue and were stenciling white stars all over it.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Famed for his stencilling combining humour with graffiti, as well as his 2010 Academy award-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy's identity has long remained a mystery.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
For many years, Spero suffered from arthritis: hand-painting gave way to stencilling and home-made printing.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
She is known for her quirky text works, stencilling on walls or using old-fashioned black noticeboards with movable letters.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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