plate
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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
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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
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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
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
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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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