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
A simple hand stencil found on a cave wall in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art on Earth.
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
The mousy brown librarian has sent copies of the Tavernier and the Streeter and even—most remarkably— stencil duplicates of de Boodt’s 1604 Gemmarum et Lapidum Historia, written entirely in Latin.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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Its photocopiers didn’t need awkward stencils to serve as the master copy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 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
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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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
Additional interventions include stenciled speed limits on the road, speed humps, red-light cameras, as well as partnerships with police and public health departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 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
Brandon Stirling Baker lit the piece with elegance, his scenic design putting stenciled numbers on the wings that suggested a warehouse or maybe an old gym.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
Travis’s father perspired in the gravel driveway, changing out the spark plugs on his pickup that had the name of the family business, Bohannon Lumber; stenciled on the side.
From "The Serpent King" by Jeff Zentner
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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
Banksy rose to prominence after he began spray-painting his now-trademark stencilled designs around Bristol in the early 1990s.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024
Rising to fame by creating stencilled designs around his home city of Bristol in the early 1990s, despite worldwide following, Banksy's identity remains unknown.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
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
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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
We’d chosen blue and were stenciling white stars all over it.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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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
“That’s the beauty of it. They are making this modern world and still someone has laboured over stencilling over these thousands of dividers across Mumbai. It’s quite something.”
From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2019
Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
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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