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plaque

[plak] / plæk /


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“No words,” she wrote in a Facebook post showing her son with the MVP plaque.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

These amendments also authorized the creation of a plaque commemorating the 60th anniversary of the National Cultural Center Act.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026

The resulting calcium score reflects the amount of detectable calcified plaque.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 12, 2026

Godwin Forde's name is on the 9/11 memorial plaque in Grosvenor Square, London, along with the other 66 Britons who died in the attacks.

From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2026

The first door I come to has a plaque that reads Strategy Room.

From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston

Among more than 16,000 participants with no symptoms or previous cardiovascular disease diagnosis, researchers detected atherosclerotic plaques in 57.1%.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 1, 2026

Since the 1990s, many towns in countries across Europe, including in Germany and Austria, have embedded small brass plaques in the streets in memory of Jews and other victims of Nazi atrocities.

From BBC ● Sep. 26, 2026

This time, the target was bronze plaques meant to honor the military at Veterans Sports Park in Tustin.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 22, 2026

Amyloid beta plaques and tau tangles are among the best known biological features of Alzheimer's disease.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 13, 2026

I head toward the hall, my eyes on the numbered plaques above the doors.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam




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