stencil
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Banksy’s stencil works are with the murals on the fifth floor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026
Scientists identified a partial hand stencil surrounded by much younger paintings.
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
"Using the burnt material that remains on the surface of the casing as a stencil, we can deposit specific materials in between the gaps, allowing for the visualisation," said Dr. McKeever.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 2, 2025
So I phoned this in, and the woman who was going to cut the stencil asked me, “What did his wife say?”
From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut
Its photocopiers didn’t need awkward stencils to serve as the master copy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 15, 2025
She placed stencils of the tattoo on Althouse’s arm before they got started that morning, tweaking the tattoo size and its placement.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2025
On Friday, Musk shared two side-by-side A.I.-generated images of graffiti-style stencils: a smiling, handsome Kirk, and a cowering, dying Zarutska.
From Slate ● Sep. 12, 2025
The "Girl With Balloon" artwork is part of a series of paintings and stencils by the guerrilla artist.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024
Jamie is with her, too, and—surprise—she has almost the exact same bike, only hers is pale yellow and the stencils are paisley.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
The artist known for spray-painting stenciled images of rats and protesters onto buildings around the world has also worked hard to remain anonymous.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 21, 2026
Additional interventions include stenciled speed limits on the road, speed humps, red-light cameras, as well as partnerships with police and public health departments.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 29, 2026
The next record in the archival files is his business card, crisp and rectangular with the words “The Baron Georg von Trapp” stenciled in the center.
From Slate ● Jan. 26, 2025
Brandon Stirling Baker lit the piece with elegance, his scenic design putting stenciled numbers on the wings that suggested a warehouse or maybe an old gym.
From New York Times ● May 3, 2024
On the side of the crate was stenciled: “Secret—U.S. Government.”
From "Bomb" by Steve Sheinkin
It took him a full day to broadcast the seed into the furrows, after which he folded away the burlap, barely noticing a stencilled word indicating where it had come from: Odessa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
By analysing the marks in the woman's skin, the team believe that the tattoos were probably stencilled onto the skin before being tattooed.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
Rising to fame by creating stencilled designs around his home city of Bristol in the early 1990s, despite worldwide following, Banksy's identity remains unknown.
From BBC ● May 17, 2023
A slogan stencilled in red onto the road in Hebrew, Arabic and English by the side of the road read: "Drawing the line."
From Reuters ● Mar. 16, 2023
"He's his name stencilled on all the capes and muletas," she said.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
The nanocryotron was created by using electron beam lithography, a kind of stenciling technique that uses a beam of electrons to remove a polymer film to expose a particular region of interest.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 11, 2024
The ministry also accused Russia of being behind the stenciling of Jewish stars last November on walls in Paris and its suburbs, causing alarm about the safety of France’s Jewish community, the largest in Europe.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 12, 2024
When he visits the wall that cordons off Palestinian areas of Jerusalem, he adds to its profusion of graffiti, stenciling onto it a Sumerian phrase cribbed from that Mesopotamian pillar.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2023
Matteo Cunsolo, a baker in northern Italy, has been stenciling the word "peace" onto loaves of bread, and the money he makes from selling the baked good has gone toward charity, the Associated Press reports.
From Fox News ● Mar. 21, 2022
We’d chosen blue and were stenciling white stars all over it.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
Famed for his stencilling combining humour with graffiti, as well as his 2010 Academy award-nominated film Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy's identity has long remained a mystery.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2022
These include fixed drawing room seating with Art Nouveau glass panels, original light fittings and light switches, carved chimney pieces, servant bell pushes and much of the original stencilling to the hall and stairs.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2021
Early "straight" graffiti was abandoned for stencilling and clear, legible, instantly understandable sloganeering.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 1, 2012
She is known for her quirky text works, stencilling on walls or using old-fashioned black noticeboards with movable letters.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 2, 2011
The man who was stencilling the new ones and tossing them into a pile stopped.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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