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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

The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.

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

They’ve promised me they’ll stencil in ‘Mr. Milly’ later this week.”

From "Shine!" by J.J. and Chris Grabenstein

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

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

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

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

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

She was wearing black pants and a sweatshirt that had autumn leaves stenciled on the front.

From "Doing Time Online" by Jan Siebold

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

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

Next to that is the stencilled face of Valerii Zaluzhnyi, the commander-in-chief of Ukraine’s armed forces, holding up two fingers in a V-for-victory gesture.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 23, 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

“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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