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placard

[plak-ahrd, -erd] / ˈplæk ɑrd, -ərd /


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"Thank you for everything, we will never forget you," read a message on the candle, which accompanied flowers and a placard calling Abascal "the grandmother of an entire country".

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

One held a placard that said, “These fares don’t keep the wheels of life turning,” according to a video verified by Storyful.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

But lately, more of the books rising to the top wear the placard noticeably looser.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

"Free our president," read a placard held by a man with a red flannel shirt which bore the image of Maduro's predecessor and mentor, late socialist firebrand Hugo Chavez.

From Barron's ● Jan. 5, 2026

I stared down now at the placard and didn’t move.

From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben

The same individual also made off with four bronze placards from the benches at nearby Patriot Point, police said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

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

Young people draped in Indian flags queued for food, painted placards and posed for photographs, while rows of police and paramilitary personnel sealed every road to parliament around them.

From BBC ● Jul. 20, 2026

In Kyiv, an AFP reporter saw protesters clapping and banging the cardboard placards that became a symbol of last summer's anti-government protests, chanting "shame" and "Fedorov".

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

The demigods ran, tripping over stones, leaping over crumbled walls, dodging around columns and informational placards.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan

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

Informed that chain-gang camps had been placarded with signs saying, "Spend your holiday in Cape Cod," Governor Rivers grinned.

From Time Magazine Archive

C. I. O. In Manhattan, to inform the public that they wanted a closed shop, C. I. O. cleaners & dyers released 500 placarded balloons from Times Square hotel windows.

From Time Magazine Archive

Five thousand special buses and 83 special trams stood by.Graham's advance guard placarded all Scotland with his picture.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of them had smuggled into the hall a chair with "Gaelic chair" placarded on it, and the lord-rector unwittingly played into their hands.

From An Edinburgh Eleven Pencil Portraits from College Life by J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie

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

After this date the expenses did not reach 20,000 francs a week, the expenses of placarding included.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

As the administration of the Rue Pagevin threw obstacles into the way of placarding the decrees and proclamations, Debock advised the workmen bill-stickers to associate themselves.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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




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