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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
On his Instagram Stories, Anstead shared an adorable snap of Hudson, who can be seen giving two thumbs up over a plate of pancakes, strawberries and blueberries.
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Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
While it was temporarily fixed with a steel plate, long-term repairs are needed as Gardner and other parts of southwest Johnson County see more development come online and its populations steadily increase.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Circa 81 serves up beautiful plates of Spanish-style tapas and local seafood.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
During many millennia of rubbing and shifting, Earth’s tectonic plates moved the Gulf of Mexico and its traditional game of golf in a southwesterly direction to their President location.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Kayla Grant, PEOPLE, 8 Sep. 2025
While it was temporarily fixed with a steel plate, long-term repairs are needed as Gardner and other parts of southwest Johnson County see more development come online and its populations steadily increase.
—Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 8 Sep. 2025
Circa 81 serves up beautiful plates of Spanish-style tapas and local seafood.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2025
During many millennia of rubbing and shifting, Earth’s tectonic plates moved the Gulf of Mexico and its traditional game of golf in a southwesterly direction to their President location.
—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plate
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Memory and storage options scale with the processor.—
Jorge Jimenez,
PC Magazine,
10 Sep. 2025
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Anderson’s ensemble—Regina Hall, Wood Harris, newcomer Chase Infiniti—signals scale and stakes.—
Okla Jones,
Essence,
10 Sep. 2025
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The way to avoid these limitations isn’t to abandon quantum field theory, but rather to go beyond the perturbative approach of Feynman diagrams, and to perform the full analytic calculations demanded by the underlying quantum field theory.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
5 Sep. 2025
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Work with over 250,000 shapes, link diagrams to live data from Excel or Microsoft Entra ID, and generate org charts automatically.—
PC Magazine,
PC Magazine,
4 Sep. 2025
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Despite the budget-friendly price point, the sheets are a clear favorite among Amazon shoppers as more than 6,000 have snapped them up in the past month alone, and a whopping 71,000 have awarded them a perfect rating.—
Maggie Horton,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Line a large baking sheet with paper towels.—
Kimberly Holland,
Southern Living,
7 Sep. 2025
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Concerns included graphic illustrations, discussion of drug or alcohol use and transgender acceptance.—
Taylor Seely,
AZCentral.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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The store supplied her with bondage pants, kilts, and T-shirts printed with obscene illustrations.—
Rebecca Mead,
New Yorker,
8 Sep. 2025
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But pretty pages filled with fancy graphics and clever animations get ignored while ugly pages with clear messages make sales.—
Jodie Cook,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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Clothing must not feature offensive language, obscene gestures/graphics, or nudity or clothing that does not sufficiently cover undergarments.—
Sarah Moore,
Freep.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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At the event Nvidia speakers particularly focused on enterprise inference applications, where AI hopes to achieve its return on investment as pointed out in the slide image below.—
Thomas Coughlin,
Forbes.com,
9 Sep. 2025
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The comments came as New Zealand Police released images on Tuesday showing a campsite set up in Waitomo, which is believed to be where Phillips and his children had been staying before he was fatally shot.—
Becca Longmire,
PEOPLE,
9 Sep. 2025
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Newsom made very clear that his actions are solely a response to the Texas plan and that California's nonpartisan map drawing approach would be reinstituted at a later date.—
Tom Rogers,
MSNBC Newsweek,
4 Sep. 2025
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The Power Play multiplier does not apply to prizes won in the Double Play drawing.—
Tanya Wildt,
Freep.com,
4 Sep. 2025
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“Plate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plate. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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