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The traditional targets of taggers — walls, windows, street signs, lampposts, buses — remain their canvases.
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
There will be special lighting at street intersections and oversized ornaments and wreaths on lampposts.
—Megan Stringer, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
At Peking University, the historic center of both the 1919 and 1989 movements, the state has fastened cameras to lampposts, built informant networks, and appointed, last fall, a new university president with sterling party credentials.
—Dan Xin Huang, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2019
These posters were found in train stations, supermarkets, civic offices, stuck to lampposts and billboards all over the country.
—Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
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Nathan Solis, Los Angeles Times, 17 Oct. 2024
There will be special lighting at street intersections and oversized ornaments and wreaths on lampposts.
—Megan Stringer, Axios, 8 Oct. 2024
At Peking University, the historic center of both the 1919 and 1989 movements, the state has fastened cameras to lampposts, built informant networks, and appointed, last fall, a new university president with sterling party credentials.
—Dan Xin Huang, Foreign Affairs, 3 May 2019
These posters were found in train stations, supermarkets, civic offices, stuck to lampposts and billboards all over the country.
—Hugo Hamilton, The New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2024
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“Lamppost.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lamppost. Accessed 4 Nov. 2024.
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lamppost
noun
lamp·post
ˈlam(p)-ˌpōst 
: a post supporting a usually outdoor lamp or lantern
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