stencil
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Banksy’s stencil works are with the murals on the fifth floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Scientists identified a partial hand stencil surrounded by much younger paintings.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026
On the wafer’s surface, a chemical substrate called a photoresist reacts to the light, and etches the stencil pattern into the silicon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026
“Will you hand me the stencil? This one needs a touch-up.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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Design studies for Olana included in the exhibit provide further details about the ornamental stencils that characterize Church’s home both inside and out.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
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
There’s lots of fun stencils to choose from, so even if you’re not the natural you hoped, you’ll still end up with a masterpiece.
From Salon ● May 28, 2025
They have also declined to comment about the possible meaning behind the series of stencils in London.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2024
I wonder if they created drawings and stencils first, or if they just grabbed their cans of spray paint and improvised.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
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What does raw fish have to do with stenciled street art?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
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
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
It’s only after I leave that I remember that it’s Kelton’s backpack, with his name stenciled right on it.
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
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A stencilled outline of a hand found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the world's oldest known cave painting, researchers say.
From BBC ● Jan. 21, 2026
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
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
"He's his name stencilled on all the capes and muletas," she said.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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
The team works on me until late afternoon, turning my skin to glowing satin, stenciling patterns on my arms, painting flame designs on my twenty perfect nails.
From "The Hunger Games" by Suzanne Collins
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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
Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
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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