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stencil

[sten-suhl] / ˈstɛn səl /


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The hand stencil dates back at least 67,800 years, making it the oldest reliably dated cave art ever found.

From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2026

On the wafer’s surface, a chemical substrate called a photoresist reacts to the light, and etches the stencil pattern into the silicon.

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

The painting has been dated to at least 67,800 years ago – around 1,100 years before the previous record, a controversial hand stencil in Spain.

From BBC • Jan. 21, 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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