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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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A simple hand stencil found on a cave wall in Indonesia has been identified as the oldest known example of rock art on Earth.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

The team noted that this hand stencil stands out as a unique variation of a common motif.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

A light source with a very tight wavelength, somewhere between ultraviolet light and X-rays, shines through a chip-shaped stencil and onto the silicon wafer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026

In the middle, light bounces off something like a stencil patterned with the chip’s billions of transistors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 25, 2026

Reporters would telephone in stories to writers wearing headphones, and the writers would stencil the stories on mimeograph sheets.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut




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