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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 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

Scientists identified a partial hand stencil surrounded by much younger paintings.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 22, 2026

Extreme ultraviolet light is reflected off of a stencil that contains the pattern for billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

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

The "Girl With Balloon" artwork is part of a series of paintings and stencils by the guerrilla artist.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024

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 words “steakhouse entrance” have been stenciled above in letters big enough to be seen two blocks away.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 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

Instead of their own names, the jockeys had stenciled the names of Howard’s horses on the back.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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

"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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2023

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

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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