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[pleyt] / pleɪt /




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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

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

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

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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