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placard

[plak-ahrd, -erd] / ˈplæk ɑrd, -ərd /


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Her pastries are displayed gallery-style on individual plates with placard descriptions, and customers can eat them in a serene ground-floor dining area or get them to-go.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 19, 2026

“We don’t forgive or forget,” one placard said.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 6, 2026

"I'd love it if someone paid for a placard on one of the benches that said, 'Will you marry me?'," she laughs.

From BBC Jun. 10, 2026

"For the blood of the martyrs, sing the national anthem with firmness and without hesitation," read one placard.

From Barron's May 13, 2026

Just a few feet before the parked police car is the subway entrance, marked with two tall green lamps and a black placard with the numbers four and six in green circles.

From "The Sky at Our Feet" by Nadia Hashimi

The council’s signage was then replaced with placards urging residents to fight back against the parking plans.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 6, 2026

Dozens of people also paraded through the village on "salengs" -- scooters with sidecars used locally to transport coconuts -- brandishing placards featuring images of healthy, smiling livers.

From Barron's Aug. 3, 2026

Just a short walk away, protesters marched under placards calling for his ousting as chants demanding an end to the resort project echoed off government buildings.

From Barron's Jun. 12, 2026

Small groups of demonstrators, who were waving Kenyan flags, carrying placards and holding a coffin with the word "Ebola" written on the side, were demanding the plan be reversed.

From BBC Jun. 9, 2026

Many of the men and women carrying placards were old friends of mine, and they were chanting for higher wages for Works Progress Administration artists and writers.

From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright

The Ben Crump Law website is placarded with numerous recent cable news appearances, many conducted from his Tallahassee home during quarantine.

From Washington Post Jun. 18, 2020

So placarded the Anti-Saloon League during the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

Anti-aircraft guns blazed at imaginary targets with blank shells while firemen sprayed make-believe fires and first-aid crews bandaged the sound arms and legs of placarded "wounded."

From Time Magazine Archive

Strings of placarded pickets paraded outside the U.S.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Freemasons had this hideous answer placarded in Paris.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

The 'folly of the Cross,' the placarding of our human weakness, is something more intimate than the mere stripping off of outward paraphernalia.

From Time Magazine Archive

No speaker mentioned Adlai Stevenson, and his picture was not among the big portraits of party leaders placarding the hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

This duty is not confined to registering the information or placarding the house, nor will it be properly performed by merely removing the sick person to a hospital and disinfecting the premises.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It contented itself with placarding the manifesto, and neglected the smallest precautions, even that of occupying the railway station.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

This first placarding of one's name is a peculiar and mixed sensation.

From That Fortune by Charles Dudley Warner




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