plate
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Republican Ron DeSantis wants new state laws to restrict the use of automated license plate readers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
"We've got to step up to the plate, the Irish government has got to step up to the plate and we need to do that in lockstep," he added.
From BBC ● Aug. 25, 2026
Thomas did his part at the plate in both weekend games, however.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
A gun's rear sight and a musket side plate found nearby offer some support for that interpretation.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 22, 2026
I start filling my own plate with anything that will fit—salmon skewers, cubed potatoes, roasted corn, and garlic bread.
From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller
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They travel beneath continents after tectonic plates begin to separate and have previously been linked to the eruption of diamond volcanoes and mysterious phases of uplift within continents.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
A restaurant on the corporate campus, the Bourbon Street Cafe, offers employees lunch on Lenox plates inscribed with a quote in the founder’s handwriting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
The plates continue to spin at Ibrox as McInnes attempts to put order on all of this, to forge a coherent team from all the disparate parts.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
Out in the parking lot, I hung out for some time before another car arrived, a blue Chevy Silverado with Illinois plates.
From Slate ● Aug. 14, 2026
And I pretended I didn’t see her wipe a tear away from her eye as she passed me the plates.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Shohei Ohtani plated a run on a force-out, Mookie Betts drove in Kim on a sacrifice fly to tie the score and Freddie Freeman bounced a double off the right-field wall to drive in Ohtani.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The team believes this new classification could reshape how scientists understand the evolutionary history and global distribution of plated dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
After more strolls along the tundra, I dine at Grill It restaurant, where winter appears plated rather than resisted.
From Salon ● Mar. 8, 2026
It is plated with 99.9% pure platinum and is marketed as “invite-only,” though anyone can request access on Robinhood’s website.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 5, 2026
So much of the decor was plated in gold, it was as if King Midas himself had been a guest here and carelessly laid his hands on everything within reach.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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She once filmed herself plating an elaborate dessert—a petit gâteau in the shape of a Christmas ornament from the Miami bakery Bachour—only to have it slip off her spatula and break.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Series creator Christopher Storer conveys this in the briefest, tightest shots of hands lovingly plating food, as well as in panoramic views of the series as a whole.
From Salon ● Jun. 28, 2026
But civilians here have no armour plating to shield them, and many Lebanese no longer have a roof over their heads.
From BBC ● Oct. 5, 2024
The tank holds hexavalent chromium, a reddish-brown solution widely used in plating that has been shown to cause lung cancer in humans if inhaled.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2024
She finished plating the slice of pie before she left the counter.
From "Summer of the Mariposas" by Guadalupe García McCall
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