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plate

[pleyt] / pleɪt /




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My grandmother always put food on an actual plate.

From Salon Aug. 31, 2026

The bronze crypt plate mounted at the mausoleum had the star’s name engraved on it before she died, alongside her husband’s name and a depiction of her Tennessee home.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 31, 2026

A new seismic analysis of the Juan de Fuca tectonic plate beneath northern Oregon suggests the subducting slab lies closer to the surface than scientists previously believed.

From Science Daily Aug. 30, 2026

Pedro Neto: Tapped in Chelsea's second goal and put a chance on a plate for Joao Pedro.

From BBC Aug. 30, 2026

He could see the perfectly crisped fried chicken leg lying on his plate beside his half-eaten potatoes.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

The team onboard plates roughly 3,000 meals per journey through the Outback.

From Salon Aug. 30, 2026

Flock, the largest supplier of the technology, has 120,000 cameras in 49 states and captures 20 billion license plates a month.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

They travel beneath continents after tectonic plates begin to separate and have previously been linked to the eruption of diamond volcanoes and mysterious phases of uplift within continents.

From Science Daily Aug. 25, 2026

The Independent Office for Police Conduct said the Passat was believed to be using cloned registration plates.

From BBC Aug. 25, 2026

Only three places at the table, I thought, as I set out the plates.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

The team believes this new classification could reshape how scientists understand the evolutionary history and global distribution of plated dinosaurs.

From Science Daily May 17, 2026

Within a few years the academy switched to a lighter tin-based alloy known as Britannia metal, plated in layers of copper, nickel silver and gold.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 12, 2026

It is plated with 99.9% pure platinum and is marketed as “invite-only,” though anyone can request access on Robinhood’s website.

From MarketWatch Mar. 5, 2026

It had the right type of rock, a heap leach pad and solvent-extraction electrowinning plant, where the copper dripping in solution from the ore is plated on cathodes.

From The Wall Street Journal Dec. 2, 2025

But with its plated chest and winged shoulders, the creature that now emerged from the shell could only be one thing.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville

She once filmed herself plating an elaborate dessert—a petit gâteau in the shape of a Christmas ornament from the Miami bakery Bachour—only to have it slip off her spatula and break.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 23, 2026

Series creator Christopher Storer conveys this in the briefest, tightest shots of hands lovingly plating food, as well as in panoramic views of the series as a whole.

From Salon Jun. 28, 2026

While it has plans to raise productivity with promised investment including a new semi-automated plating line, the firm faces a potential order gap next year after delivery of Glen Rosa.

From BBC Apr. 23, 2026

Max Muncy supplied their lone early RBIs, plating one run on a fourth-inning double and another on a sixth-inning groundout.

From Los Angeles Times May 4, 2025

His neck plating was partially fused, melted from the explosion, but the dragon didn’t seem to be in danger of crashing immediately.

From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan




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