plate
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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
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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
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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
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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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