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placard

[plak-ahrd, -erd] / ˈplæk ɑrd, -ərd /


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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

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

"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

City of London Police said a 22-year-old woman was arrested for displaying a placard in support of a proscribed organisation, in this case Palestine Action, contrary to Section 13 of the Terrorism Act 2000.

From BBC Dec. 23, 2025

“In Bletchley. I saw the placard at the station,” I reply.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

Trade unionists held placards with slogans such as “Our jobs aren’t your balance-sheet adjustment,” according to people present.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 2, 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

To make that clear, some participants have been carrying placards calling for the imprisonment of PD leader Sali Berisha – who is facing separate corruption charges – as well as Rama.

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

Some placards at the protests have highlighted the participants' unhappiness about the concession of land to foreign developers, declaring Albania is "not for sale".

From BBC Jun. 4, 2026

He was responsible for the replacement of burnt-out light bulbs, and for the cleanliness of the church, and the care of the Bibles, and the hymn-books, and the placards on the walls.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin

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

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

Across the street from the church were two grievous eyesores: a Church of England edifice placarded with snappy ads for religion, and the Garden of Eden dance hall.

From Time Magazine Archive

The influence of these placarded, shuffling men spread through the arteries of commerce.

From Time Magazine Archive

All London was placarded with that American play.

From Barnaby A Novel by R. Ramsay

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

The company was sending men over Market Street, picking out the few individuals who owned vacant lots, leasing them for the month and preparing to justify the placarding and patrolling that already had been done.

From In the Heart of a Fool by William Allen White

It is shown by the disrespectful manner in which individuals are dealt with in your journals—the placarding of public men in sensational headings, the dragging of private people and their affairs into print.

From The Contemporary Review, January 1883 Vol 43, No. 1 by Various

Had all their speech-making, placarding, bill-posting and the canvassing of factories, blocks, and primaries—had all their little savings, their risk and personal sacrifice accomplished anything?

From How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers by Willard Grosvenor Bleyer




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