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plate

noun as in dish or meal served

noun as in sheet, panel

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"We are starting life again, collecting spoon by spoon, plate by plate. Famine came, and we ground pigeon-feed to eat, and lived on wild greens," she told us.

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And it happened as two-time MVP Bryce Harper came strolling to the plate.

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He worked the fourth and fifth innings, left the mound with the Dodgers down by five runs, and quietly asked the plate umpire for a baseball on his way out.

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It was a Monday, and the release of new 75 series number plates was expected to produce a surge in demand from eager car buyers.

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He said the father had lived there for five or six years but then left the home, later visiting in a car with French number plates.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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