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as in diagram
something that visually explains or decorates a text
the book's color plate illustrates the internal organs of the human body
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Recent Examples of plate
Watching plates being perfected one by one is a lot like live theater.
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Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2025
Art is everywhere in food, from doodles on condiment packaging to watercolors on plates and tea towels.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
How long those plates can keep spinning is unclear, especially as tariffs start nudging up costs for American consumers.
—Anne Marie Drummond Lee, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
Baty ended the day with an OPS of .259 in 27 plate appearances that included him looking at a borderline called third strike after committing his critical error in the field.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Sunny Hubler, Charlotte Observer, 22 Apr. 2025
Art is everywhere in food, from doodles on condiment packaging to watercolors on plates and tea towels.
—Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 22 Apr. 2025
How long those plates can keep spinning is unclear, especially as tariffs start nudging up costs for American consumers.
—Anne Marie Drummond Lee, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2025
Baty ended the day with an OPS of .259 in 27 plate appearances that included him looking at a borderline called third strike after committing his critical error in the field.
—Larry Fleisher, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plate
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Neighborhoods that had been cut off for two years suddenly opened up, revealing a picture of hunger and suffering on a shocking scale.—
Declan Walsh,
New York Times,
19 Apr. 2025
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And indeed, there are few of its peers with the ambition to create art on this scale.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
19 Apr. 2025
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Valdés drew this art from antique maps and navigational diagrams from the Hispanic Society of America and the University of Massachusetts Amherst.—
Robin Raven,
Forbes.com,
7 Apr. 2025
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One of these diagrams, Pronouns in American Sign Language, 2020, usually hangs on a wall in my apartment.—
Mara Mills,
Artforum,
1 Apr. 2025
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Ex-Core, a spin off of Donkervoort, does it differently, with sheets laid down in a smaller mold with a powder filling in the empty parts, and then cured with a self-heating tool until the powder turns to syntactic foam to push the carbon-fiber sheets into every angle of the mold.—
Michael Taylor,
Forbes.com,
22 Apr. 2025
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Waukegan enforces a three-minute limit on in-person audience members who choose to speak during meetings, and also requires them to register on a sign-in sheet posted on the doors of the council chambers.—
Erin Yarnall,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Apr. 2025
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Photo illustration by Tsering Bista/NPR When journalist Conz Preti brought her three children to visit family in Argentina in 2022, her four-year-old son did something surprising.—
Julia Furlan,
NPR,
5 Apr. 2025
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After the illustrations were complete, Smith had a few Dreamers stand and introduce their super hero characters to the world.—
DeVonne Goode,
Parents,
4 Apr. 2025
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Jeff Rueter’s graphic of the weekend How did other U.S. players get on?—
Greg O'Keeffe,
New York Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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As seen in the graphic below, there’s also a host of regional banks set to report, providing a pulse on economic activity in different corners of the country.—
Kevin Stankiewicz,Matthew J. Belvedere,
CNBC,
13 Apr. 2025
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The images of Francis washing the feet of young prisoners will forever be etched in our minds.—
Ross Rosenfeld,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 Apr. 2025
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The asteroid is not fully visible in the first set of high-resolution images NASA released Monday, as the space rock is larger than Lucy's field of view.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA Today,
23 Apr. 2025
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The eighty-one-year-old Crumb, dressed in a long dark coat and his trademark fedora and Coke-bottle glasses, looked over his drawings as if trying to place old acquaintances at a party.—
Bruce Handy,
New Yorker,
14 Apr. 2025
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Night: 1-9-1 Check Pick 3 payouts and previous drawings here.—
Jay Cannon,
USA Today,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plate. Accessed 27 Apr. 2025.
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