plates

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Even within a scene, mayhem stacks up like teetering plates.

From Los Angeles Times • May 21, 2026

Don’t Miss: Grab dinner at Native, a Honesdale restaurant and wine bar known for seasonal small plates, natural wines and a crowd that still includes locals, even at the height of summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

The Gofar fault is a deep underwater fracture where the Pacific and Nazca tectonic plates slide past one another at roughly 140 millimeters per year, about as fast as fingernails grow.

From Science Daily • May 16, 2026

"In the summer we used to take the table outside for lunch, but it got to a point where we couldn't eat because we had flies in our mouths and on our plates."

From Barron's • May 13, 2026

But now these, too, had grown up and married or gone off to work, and so I laid three plates on the table.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom