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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

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

"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

What about issuing stickers printed with the words “This apostrophe is not necessary”? What about telling people to shin up ladders at dead of night with an apostrophe-shaped stencil and a tin of paint?

From "Eats, Shoots & Leaves" by Author

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

But who is the man behind the stencils?

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

She placed stencils of the tattoo on Althouse’s arm before they got started that morning, tweaking the tattoo size and its placement.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025

A few of her picks include stencils for a fairy house, haunted house and a scaredy cat.

From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2025

Jamie is with her, too, and—surprise—she has almost the exact same bike, only hers is pale yellow and the stencils are paisley.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina

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

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

He saw the bare head of a white man—the back of the head—framed in the narrow opening, stenciled against the yellow glare of the restless bars of light.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright

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

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

"He's his name stencilled on all the capes and muletas," she said.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

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

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

Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012

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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