plates

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Our plates brimmed with color — yellow, green, red and orange — unlike the gloom outside.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

Those statements echoed the testimony of a farmer who had claimed years earlier that on an evening in April 2004, he had encountered a man driving a sedan with German licence plates.

From Barron's • Jun. 4, 2026

He also handed UKA's former Head of Sport 79-year-old Keith Davies a 175-hour community service order after hearing how he was in charge of the equipment, which had been assembled with vital base plates missing.

From BBC • Jun. 2, 2026

There were bunting and street parties, commemorative plates in the shops and historical art projects in the schools.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026

A second door opened into another dimly lit room, and “mourners”—actors without masks who Molly assumed were Anat’s classmates—filed in, a few carrying tiny plates with rugelach, others wailing perhaps too theatrically into handkerchiefs.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny