plate

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as in scale
a small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale the tiny silver plates on the brooch are arranged to look like fish scales

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Recent Examples of plate Watching plates being perfected one by one is a lot like live theater. 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 See All Example Sentences for plate
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Noun
  • 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
  • And indeed, there are few of its peers with the ambition to create art on this scale.
    Brian Truitt, USA Today, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • In March, OpenAI debuted its latest image-generation tool, the inspiration for the potential social media project, as a way to produce everything from diagrams, infographics and logos to business cards and stock photos.
    Hayden Field,Kate Rooney, CNBC, 15 Apr. 2025
  • The diagramming and data visualization software allows users to create, share, and collaborate on professional diagrams, flowcharts, and other visual representations of complex information.
    Nora Colomer, FOXNews.com, 8 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Once the chocolate is frozen, break the sheet into crackers for dipping.
    Sophia Beams, Better Homes & Gardens, 22 Apr. 2025
  • 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
Noun
  • Just last week, the group shared some tips on how to tell Sunny and Gizmo apart, complete with a photo illustration identifying both of the chicks at different angles.
    Amaris Encinas, USA Today, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Keep reading, or listen to the story » Editor’s Pick Photo illustration by Ricardo Tomás; Source photographs from Getty Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy?
    Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • But digging into the meta means looking beneath a fantastical veneer—story, graphics, so on—to exploit the rules.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 25 Apr. 2025
  • The 23-minute-long video is packed with interesting facts, catchy songs, and those storybook-like graphics that PBS is known for.
    Annabelle Canela, Parents, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • Read on to see a handful of the most spectacular images from the Lyrid meteor shower 2025.
    Anthony Wood, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The Mega Millions jackpot rose to $60 million ahead of Friday’s drawing after no one matched all the winning numbers on Tuesday.
    Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA Today, 25 Apr. 2025
  • Fantasy 5 is a drawing game that offers tickets starting at $1.
    Simone Jasper, Miami Herald, 25 Apr. 2025

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“Plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plate. Accessed 1 May. 2025.

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