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plaster

[plas-ter, plah-ster] / ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər /




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Telltale signs of water damage include discolored wall panels, black mold, cracking plaster or peeling paint, just to name a few.

From MarketWatch Aug. 15, 2026

While there is hope that Rutte's tactics will pay off again in Ankara -- among some there is a sense that it's just a sticking plaster solution.

From Barron's Jul. 6, 2026

Inspired by her family’s produce, she cast real corn, strawberries and cherries in plaster, then made a silicone mold to create copies.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 1, 2026

Houdon’s Franklin bust exists in several autograph versions, including the marbles at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art and two plaster versions in European collections.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 12, 2026

Fresh plaster does not allow for this leisure: he has to paint while the plaster is still wet.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

In the plasters, his details are sharper, his jagged surfaces dangerous, his faces more emotive.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 19, 2026

Even North Korea, which plasters pictures of leader Kim Jong Un across the country and demands reverence, does not feature him in the passport, which instead depicts sacred Mount Paektu.

From Barron's Apr. 28, 2026

He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 15, 2024

All of the commonly used sanitary equipment such as paper, cotton, surgical masks, and commercial plasters exhibited intrinsic multi-pathway antibacterial activity with rapid responses against a broad spectrum of microbial species.

From Science Daily Feb. 1, 2024

She grabbed for the nearest piece of cloth to shoo them away and her heart froze with terror as she connected her daughter's evening baths with the mustard plasters that rolled onto the floor.

From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Busakorn also noted that the stage was decorated using highly flammable materials such as plastic flowers, while the ceiling was plastered with combustible foam.

From BBC Jul. 14, 2026

Her anguish is shared outside morgues as well as in hospitals, where photos of missing persons are plastered on walls and utility poles, written on handwritten pieces of paper.

From Barron's Jun. 30, 2026

The designs seen together — lined up on mannequins at the studio’s far end, sketches of their silhouettes plastered across the walls — feel like something out of a superhero’s wardrobe from the future.

From Los Angeles Times May 11, 2026

After his second win, that number doubled with “Kimi d’Italia” plastered across the front page.

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 27, 2026

Before he had finished the signs were plastered all over with ‘Very Cheap’ and ‘Come At Once’ and ‘You Give Me Any Watch And I Make It Run.’

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

Both sides had poured tens of millions into the campaigns, plastering billboards across Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 18, 2026

Branding was a big part of the event, with Pakistan dubbing the process the "Islamabad Talks", and plastering a logo combining the Pakistani, US and Iranian flags all over the city.

From Barron's Apr. 11, 2026

The British Dental Association Cymru acknowledged "some important wins" but said "plastering over a few of the biggest cracks is just superficial repairs" and the true cost of care was not reflected.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2025

To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.

From Salon Feb. 18, 2025

Though Cootie could barely move his arms, he’d built the house on his own, teaching himself construction as he went along, hammering the plywood walls and plastering the inside.

From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot




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