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[slayt] / sleɪt /


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Before the acquisition, 20th Century Fox routinely released 12 to 17 movies annually in theatres, but under Disney that slate scaled down to just three to six a year.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

A slate of contract manufacturers stretching from Italy to India to Thailand and beyond shape it into jewelry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 4, 2026

A slate of new policies are pushing back against dynamic pricing.

From Barron's ● Oct. 4, 2026

Matching the success of the 2025 film slate was always going to be a tall order, particularly when so many of Warner Bros.’ movies that year overperformed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026

Their dark slate roofs and tall hedges gave the buildings an atmosphere of solemn dignity, like matrons sitting shiva.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros

But although the faithful had successfully detected a traitor, and even managed to spell his name correctly on their slates, the first round table saw some other players behave in ways that immediately aroused suspicion.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The Jackson campaign, for example, has rolled out slates of delegates who promise to vote for Jackson at the convention in all of Maine’s counties.

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

Shareholders shouldn’t vote for the two other slates put forward, including the one that includes Lovaglio CEO candidate, as it isn’t in their interest, it says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

They’re not cardboard cutouts, exactly, but they’re blank enough slates for us to project onto.

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 2026

The sun bakes the slates above their heads.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Maduro and Flores are slated for a trial in New York next June and are currently being held in a Brooklyn jail.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

The film is currently slated to hit theaters on Feb. 18, 2028.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

“Intel is currently slated to supply its 14A process, a role TSMC’s own nodes could replace,” Oppenheimer semiconductor equity analyst Rick Schafer wrote in a note to clients that published Monday.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 5, 2026

The government is slated to release August current-account data on Thursday and household spending figures for the same month on Friday.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

I don’t know him, obviously, and he might turn out to be insanely destructive—he is outside in the middle of the night on a day he’s slated for death, after all.

From "They Both Die at the End" by Adam Silvera

“The internet was slating these outfits,” she said in the video.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

The Legislature voted this year to ban most private detention facilities in the state, slating the detention center for closure in 2025, when its contract with the federal government ends.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2021

He added he had "no interest in slating anybody or kicking anybody while they are down" as "it ain't my style".

From BBC ● Sep. 30, 2021

She skipped Thursday’s candidate slating, saying party leaders haven’t favored her before and weren’t going to pick her.

From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2016

The roof of the chapel did not fly off, which speaks volumes in praise of its solid slating.

From Shirley by Charlotte Brontë




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