slate
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The slate also includes Bryan Fogel’s endurance-sports documentary “The Row”; Pegah Ahangarani’s Iran-focused “Rehearsals for a Revolution”; and Mark Cousins’ 16-hour “The Story of Documentary Film.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
The two-day visit is expected to see the presidents sign a slate of economic agreements and discuss the fallout from the US-Iran war.
From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026
"But the brain is not a blank slate that gets trained by experience. It is a mix of nature and nurture, and the nature is that pre-wired architecture."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026
After all, what better medium for mindless masculinity than a blank slate?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 22, 2026
One wall was devoted to a massive slate board covered in chalk equations.
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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Footage shared by the country's prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others.
From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2026
Campaigns scrambled to offer their own slates of delegates who they thought would be pledged to them.
From Slate ● Jul. 24, 2026
With strong slates of contenders heading into the 2026 Emmys, that could change for both streamers when the nominations are announced July 8.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 2026
Under Italian corporate rules, shareholders vote for competing slates of directors rather than individual candidates.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Now she would have to call into play all of her climbing ability to keep going up the treacherously steep smooth slates.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The deal includes an undisclosed upfront cash payment along with contingent milestone payments, and is slated to close by the end of the year.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
The company said it expects the deal to be accretive to earnings per share and free cash flow in the first 12 months following close, which is currently slated for the first half of 2027.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
J. Cole’s tour is in support of his seventh album, “The Fall-Off,” and he’s slated to play Oakland for a two-night run over the weekend.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026
A pretrial hearing is slated for Sept. 15, a day after his 33rd birthday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 27, 2026
After finding my pool number and strip assignment, I looked at which women from which country I was slated to fence and tried not to psych myself out.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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The Legislature voted this year to ban most private detention facilities in the state, slating the detention center for closure in 2025, when its contract with the federal government ends.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
This is also the last year that the tactic of slating is likely to work.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 26, 2016
She skipped Thursday’s candidate slating, saying party leaders haven’t favored her before and weren’t going to pick her.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2016
Interesting watching all the local news people at Bolton slating the Andy Kellett transfer around an hour and a half before it was completed.
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2015
Why give it an extra advertisement by slating it?'
From The Grandchildren of the Ghetto by Israel Zangwill
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