stencil
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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
The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.
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
“Will you hand me the stencil? This one needs a touch-up.”
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
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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
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
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
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
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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
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
His blazing red 1970 abstract “Middle Passage” — a phrase that defines the forced trans-Atlantic voyage — has faint maps of Africa and the Americas stenciled on the canvas.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 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
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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
Images posted on the elusive artist's Instagram depict a lighthouse stencilled on a drab, beige wall, along with the words: "I want to be what you saw in me".
From BBC ● May 29, 2025
According to Le Monde, both couples who stencilled the Star of David graffiti were accompanied by a photographer whose job was to put the images straightaway online.
From BBC ● Nov. 8, 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
Each cage was stencilled with the name and the brand of the bull-breeder.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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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
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
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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
She is known for her quirky text works, stencilling on walls or using old-fashioned black noticeboards with movable letters.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
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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