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Instead, attendees were met with disaster relief tents, cheese sandwiches in plastic foam boxes and no concert.
—Angela Yang, NBC News, 9 Sep. 2024
The new New York Street was made to look like the city in the mid 20th century, a decision that required detailed craftsmanship such as window heads and sills that would have been carved out of wood in years past but were instead fabricated out of plastic foam and finished with plaster.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 17 May 2024
Other types, including polyvinyl chloride or vinyl (PVC), polyamide nylon (PA), polypropylene (PP), and polystyrene (PS), which is typically used in plastic foam, were likely introduced to the water before it was packaged since the packaging was not made from these materials.
—Kaitlin Sullivan, Health, 16 Mar. 2024
Wrap the remaining plastic foam balls with the black, green, purple, and orange yarn.
—Emily Vanschmus, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Aug. 2023
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First Known Use
1943, in the meaning defined above
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“Plastic foam.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plastic%20foam. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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