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[playt] / pleɪt /




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If you do that, you might find yourself spending weekends redoing much of the work you thought you had removed from your plate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

Canteen staff also sometimes help with "an extra plate, a little fruit compote -- something to make it a bit easier", Abdel said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Blake Snell zipped a 97.6-mph fastball over the center of the plate, and Brewers leadoff hitter Jackson Chourio sent it into the first row of the stands in right-center field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

For now, the research offers an intriguing possibility: Improving liver health may not always require changing what is on your plate.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Oliver pouts and flicks a carrot onto my plate.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

By the time the servers get all the plates out of the catering kitchen, the steak or fish is often cold.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026

The chips are supposed to flag stolen cars and trucks, but because the new plates are valid, the vehicles are never listed as stolen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

That might make you more vulnerable to foot fractures, according to a 2023 analysis of high-stack running shoes with carbon-fiber plates published in Sports Medicine, with Tenforde as the lead author.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

"Discharges seep into the water, flow into the nearby river that irrigates farmland, and end up in the fruit and vegetables on our plates."

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

I’ve got a pile for books and boxes of magazines, a place for plates and chipped teapots and other things from the tea shop, and a whole area for furniture that needs to be fixed.

From "The Wrong Way Home" by Kate O’Shaughnessy

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

Much of the buzz has centered on the featherweight, carbon-fiber plated Adidas running shoes both Sawe and Kejelcha wore.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 28, 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

This kid from my school named Eddy Strap and his parents delicately ate some of the mini-quiches that were plated perfectly next to the mint juice.

From "The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora" by Pablo Cartaya

The team selected highly elastic yarns and used a knitting method called plating, which places different yarns on opposite faces of the textile.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026

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

Both are used in industry for metal cleaning, plating and extraction, and photography.

From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2024

The iron plating was now so hot it steamed.

From "The Sea of Monsters" by Rick Riordan


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