plate
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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
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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
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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
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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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