placements

plural of placement

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Recent Examples of placements Langley follows with five placements, including three inside the top five. Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 2 Aug. 2026 Wolfe had a lengthy juvenile record, which included 29 different placements by the Department of Juvenile Services between 2019 and 2024. Mike Hellgren, CBS News, 31 July 2026 Media placements are engineered with the same rigor, drafted with attention to headlines, entities, and publication authority in relation to the queries where the client is most visible. K. H. Koehler, USA Today, 29 July 2026 Those placements are increasingly valuable as demand in certain healthcare fields outpaces the supply of available medical personnel. Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 17 July 2026 Grand Slam events have updated commercial regulations to more clearly distinguish athletic equipment from luxury marketing placements, reflecting how valuable athlete visibility has become for fashion brands. Nethumi Kannangara, Sportico.com, 15 July 2026 Jerrell hopes the initiative will exceed the goals Hamilton presented, which includes 75 credentials earned, 50 high-wage job placements and 80% of families completing FAFSA in its first year. Laura Horne, Charlotte Observer, 14 July 2026 Some of these placements are simply down to necessity; undersea cables are the only practical way to link continents with high-bandwidth data, and pipelines often have no viable overland route. New Atlas, 5 July 2026 Founded in 1776, America, too, has a birth chart of its own, and while many astrologers still debate the nation’s exact time of birth (or which moment officially counts as the beginning), America’s planetary placements are eerily accurate. Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 4 July 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for placements
Noun
  • Reid pulled him aside both of the last two days for one-on-one conversations, presumably to discuss assignments and coverages.
    Sam McDowell, Kansas City Star, 1 Aug. 2026
  • Sources tell OutKick that, in addition to last night’s assignment, Ravech will do a few remaining assignments in the coming weeks, including another MLB game and his usual Little League World Series work.
    Zach Dean OutKick, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2026
Noun
  • Opponents are urging other residents to sign petitions and write letters to the zoning and wetlands commissions, and to attend their hearings to speak against the project.
    Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 6 Aug. 2026
  • The Section 106 review only started in June, after the arch had already received final design approval from the first of two federal arts commissions reviewing it.
    Rachel Treisman, NPR, 6 Aug. 2026
Noun
  • An analysis of 12 top right-wing influencers shows their audience is shrinking, adding to Republican worries ahead of the midterm elections.
    Rob Crilly, The Washington Examiner, 31 July 2026
  • Israel meanwhile appears unlikely to pull back significant forces or make other concessions ahead of its October elections.
    Samy Magdy, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

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“Placements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/placements. Accessed 7 Aug. 2026.

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