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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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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 light source with a very tight wavelength, somewhere between ultraviolet light and X-rays, shines through a chip-shaped stencil and onto the silicon wafer.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 27, 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

“Will you hand me the stencil? This one needs a touch-up.”

From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry

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

The group purchased the stencils that were used at Stoner Park and served as inspiration for Hale, but were not involved in his efforts in Sawtelle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 6, 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

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

The original drawing of the monorail, stenciled by Gurr within three days of getting the assignment and colored by John Hench, hangs in Gurr’s living room.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 25, 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

Nearby, a stenciled Bible verse Mirjam chose for their home before Oct.

From Seattle Times Mar. 26, 2024

The magazine was printed somewhere in Maine and full of stenciled poems and descriptive paragraphs separated from each other by asterisks.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath

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

Since Monday, stencilled silhouette images of a goat, elephants, monkeys, a wolf, pelicans and a cat have popped up in various locations across London.

From BBC Aug. 11, 2024

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

On the front read a Bulldog-yellow-colored stenciling of the words “Dog Food.”

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 11, 2023

Matteo Cunsolo, a baker in northern Italy, has been stenciling the word "peace" onto loaves of bread, and the money he makes from selling the baked good has gone toward charity, the Associated Press reports.

From Fox News Mar. 21, 2022

She had no lips at all and compensated this by stenciling on a large red, greasy mouth that now popped open in delight, now shut in sudden alarm.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

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

For many years, Spero suffered from arthritis: hand-painting gave way to stencilling and home-made printing.

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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