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The department hasn’t found any evidence that its automated license plate reader data have been shared with any immigration enforcement agency, said Dean Gialamas, commanding officer of the LAPD’s Information Technology Bureau.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2026
For now, the research offers an intriguing possibility: Improving liver health may not always require changing what is on your plate.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026
Not to add to your plate, but any chance you’ll fit in a new special soon?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Kathryn Vaughn returned to work at a rural West Tennessee elementary school this autumn with a lot more stress on her plate than in previous years.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
She would have been quite happy to sit around the counter and catch the scent of every plate of food passed out to customers all night if it weren’t for her stomach grumbling.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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By the time the servers get all the plates out of the catering kitchen, the steak or fish is often cold.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 13, 2026
Track stars have filed civil lawsuits against shoe manufacturers, including Nike and Puma, alleging that high-stack shoes with carbon plates caused career-derailing injuries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
"Discharges seep into the water, flow into the nearby river that irrigates farmland, and end up in the fruit and vegetables on our plates."
From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026
Zhang allegedly later sent two license plates to the official, which Holt said were registered to the target of their surveillance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Patrons— families with young children, groups of chattering friends, couples on dates, and solo diners—sit at green picnic tables, their plates piled with food.
From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith
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Shohei Ohtani plated a run on a force-out, Mookie Betts drove in Kim on a sacrifice fly to tie the score and Freddie Freeman bounced a double off the right-field wall to drive in Ohtani.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 26, 2026
The fossil, which comes from a plated dinosaur that lived about 150 million years ago, is also helping researchers propose a new explanation for how stegosaurs evolved and spread across the world.
From Science Daily ● May 17, 2026
After the Americans tied the score in the bottom of the eighth, reliever Garrett Whitlock surrendered a double to Eugenio Suárez in the ninth that plated the go-ahead run.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 18, 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
Fitting their plated helmets on their heads they sallied out, Odysseus in the lead.
From "The Odyssey" by Homer
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The team selected highly elastic yarns and used a knitting method called plating, which places different yarns on opposite faces of the textile.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 4, 2026
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
Even in the dark, their Imperial gold plating glinted.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
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