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[pleyt] / pleɪt /




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Without Salah - and as the wait for Barcola continues - where better to step up to the plate for Isak than at the place he once called home.

From BBC Aug. 23, 2026

A gun's rear sight and a musket side plate found nearby offer some support for that interpretation.

From Science Daily Aug. 22, 2026

Yes, “Spa Weekend” is a plate of reheated “Wedding Crashers” nachos, because no one stirs up cheerful chaos like the spirited Fisher.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 21, 2026

It’s called the “Invisiball”—baseball jargon for a pitch that batters inexplicably can’t hit, as if it simply disappears on its way to the plate.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 20, 2026

She fixes herself a plate of food and places it in front of her.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

A restaurant on the corporate campus, the Bourbon Street Cafe, offers employees lunch on Lenox plates inscribed with a quote in the founder’s handwriting.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

The fast-casual chain still offers an entire section of protein plates in addition to its classic bowls.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 22, 2026

But fossils usually preserve only durable structures such as shells or skeletal plates.

From Science Daily Aug. 21, 2026

Locatelli said one of the biggest differences between MasterChef in the UK and Italy was the range of influence on British plates.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Tansy was rounding the table with our plates of breakfast up her arm.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck

The team believes this new classification could reshape how scientists understand the evolutionary history and global distribution of plated dinosaurs.

From Science Daily May 17, 2026

Within a few years the academy switched to a lighter tin-based alloy known as Britannia metal, plated in layers of copper, nickel silver and gold.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

It is plated with 99.9% pure platinum and is marketed as “invite-only,” though anyone can request access on Robinhood’s website.

From MarketWatch Mar. 5, 2026

It had the right type of rock, a heap leach pad and solvent-extraction electrowinning plant, where the copper dripping in solution from the ore is plated on cathodes.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

So much of the decor was plated in gold, it was as if King Midas himself had been a guest here and carelessly laid his hands on everything within reach.

From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood

She once filmed herself plating an elaborate dessert—a petit gâteau in the shape of a Christmas ornament from the Miami bakery Bachour—only to have it slip off her spatula and break.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Each of the first seven hitters in the lineup recorded an RBI, with Hernández and Max Muncy plating runs in the fifth before Mookie Betts and Freeman hit back-to-back RBI singles in the sixth.

From Los Angeles Times May 26, 2025

Instead of plating a large piece of chicken with sweet potatoes and rice on the side, transform those same ingredients into a sweet potato risotto with chicken.

From Salon Mar. 30, 2025

Both are used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction, and photography.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2024

We go back inside, where Darma is already plating our dinner.

From "Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish" by Pablo Cartaya




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