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placard

[plak-ahrd, -erd] / ˈplæk ɑrd, -ərd /


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On the table beside the typewriter, a placard reads: “Retro Chat GPT.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026

One placard summed up the mood: "Everything's fine, except everything."

From Barron's ● Oct. 20, 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

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

From Los Angeles Times ● May 27, 2026

Each piece of art had a little placard indicating the artist and name of the work.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

When the king arrived in the Bahamas last week, small groups of protesters waved placards reading: "Pay what you owe us."

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

Many held placards saying "no apology will return what was stolen, reparations now" and "justice must not depend on wealth status and connections".

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"Pay what you owe us," read placards waved by protesters in the Bahamas.

From Barron's ● Oct. 30, 2026

And all around it, most of the little placards identifying native plants are broken or missing.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2026

“AMANDLA! AWETHU! AMANDLA! AWETHU!” we chanted and waved placards.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane

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

The health authorities, unable to find a law to compel Mother Goodman to do what she did not want to do with her brood, placarded the house and went away.

From Time Magazine Archive

So placarded the Anti-Saloon League during the War.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seems that the Smithsonian, honoring their secretary, had already in residence the Langley machine, placarded as the first heavier than air machine.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Food Administration placarded their statement that 'Food Will Win the War' broadcast throughout the country, and that was followed by a whole flock of other claimants, particularly after the armistice was signed.

From On Secret Service Detective-Mystery Stories Based on Real Cases Solved By Government Agents by William Nelson Taft

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

Not except by announcing and placarding itself as excellent,—which, I reckon, it above other things will probably be in no great haste to do.

From Latter-Day Pamphlets by Thomas Carlyle

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

I venture to think the conjurers unwise in irritating the spiritualists, who are a growing body, by placarding their entertainment as exposés, even though such announcements may "draw" the non-spiritual public.

From Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis by Charles Maurice Davies


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