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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
Authorities said Camacho was wearing a motorcycle helmet and two tactical vests with ballistic plates.
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Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
An application and affidavit must be completed and notarized to receive historical vehicle plates.
—Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2025
My friends played their parts, crowing over the buffet, piling their plates with sliders and wings, shouting at the television.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, Maile provided the Royals with a veteran option behind the plate.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
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Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 Nov. 2025
An application and affidavit must be completed and notarized to receive historical vehicle plates.
—Gillian Stawiszynski, Cincinnati Enquirer, 3 Nov. 2025
My friends played their parts, crowing over the buffet, piling their plates with sliders and wings, shouting at the television.
—Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
Meanwhile, Maile provided the Royals with a veteran option behind the plate.
—Jaylon Thompson, Kansas City Star, 3 Nov. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plate
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If negative emissions technologies can indeed attain consequential scale, should they be pressed into the service of life extension for fossil capital?—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Today, those physical infrastructure requirements—the chips and the data centers behind them—operate on a staggering scale, with energy needs measured in gigawatts.—
Sharon Goldman,
Fortune,
5 Nov. 2025
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AIs routinely struggle with diagrams, though, so this test is almost always a measure of which technology does the least bad job, and ChatGPT takes that honor here.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
25 Oct. 2025
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It was subsequently given to the artist Kara Walker, who carved it up in accordance with a butcher’s diagram.—
Julian Lucas,
New Yorker,
24 Oct. 2025
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Bedding, Towels, and Linens Use clear bins (along with vacuum bags for more space) to sort sheet sets by size or towels by type.—
Mary Cornetta,
Better Homes & Gardens,
2 Nov. 2025
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Inputs are applied as horizontal or vertical displacements at the sheet’s edges, and outputs appear as movements at other edges, matching the result of a matrix applied to the input vector.—
Jijo Malayil,
Interesting Engineering,
2 Nov. 2025
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Each page features full-color illustrations and only a few lines of text, making Xolo an excellent pick for reluctant readers, graphic novel lovers, and kids who’ve just begun to find their way into longer stories.—
Caroline Carlson,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Photo illustration of the YouTube TV logo displayed on a smartphone, with the YouTube logo in the background.—
Dylan Butts,
CNBC,
31 Oct. 2025
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But the recent debut definitely distinguishes itself a little from the typical oversized American white trailer box splashed with generic swoosh graphics.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
4 Nov. 2025
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Fox Sports also played into the rap beef following the Dodgers' Game 7 victory as the network shared a graphic of Lamar in a Buick Grand National while Drake is left in the smoke.—
Valentina Martinez,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Nov. 2025
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In another image, the Chinese leader appears to grin with his eyes shut, with Foreign Minister Wang Yi laughing by his side.—
Chris Lau,
CNN Money,
4 Nov. 2025
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TruthScan’s difference Unlike other companies offering AI image and video detection, TruthScan has detection tools for enterprise companies and for the general public.—
Matt Emma,
USA Today,
3 Nov. 2025
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Did anyone win the last Powerball drawing?—
Ray Padilla,
Louisville Courier Journal,
29 Oct. 2025
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By the turn of the century, Ernst Haeckel had amassed enough drawings to produce his great masterpiece and the single work most associated with his name, Kunstformen der Natur (Art Forms in Nature).—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
28 Oct. 2025
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“Plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plate. Accessed 6 Nov. 2025.
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