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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

"We do not use air conditioning, and this year we did not use the boiler," she said as she held a placard that read "electricity service is a right".

From Barron's Jan. 30, 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 wrote on my placard: 'People! Let's stop the war. We bear responsibility for peace on Planet Earth!'"

From BBC Oct. 30, 2025

He lifted the handicapped placard out of the pocket in the door beside him.

From "Small Steps" by Louis Sachar

In the predominantly Kurdish city of Qamishli, hundreds of people marched on Tuesday carrying placards reading: "No to the starvation policy" and "No to the increase in fuel prices."

From Barron's Sep. 16, 2026

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

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

The protesters, many of them carrying the Ukrainian flags and placards expressing support for Fedorov, gathered in the capital for the second day running to protest the decision, an AFP journalist saw.

From Barron's Jul. 17, 2026

A student called to ask him for suggestions about what to write on placards; another student was contacting the local TV stations.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

On the stage was a chair placarded with Sir Arthur's name.

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

A Florida realtor followed Bryan's motor in another bungalow on wheels, placarded : "Ask us about Tampa ! Ask us ! Ask us!"

From Time Magazine Archive

You discuss when it has been placarded that the tricolor flag floats from the fort of Issy.

From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary

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 '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

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

In 1815 he was brought before the Wardmote Inquest of St. Dunstan's for placarding his shop on Sundays, and for carrying on a retail trade as bookseller and stationer, not being a freeman.

From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury

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




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