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platted

verb

past tense of plat

as in braided

to form into a braid plat yarn into a cord

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Recent Examples of platted Or if this new continent had people living there who’d already platted out Elm and Main Streets. — Literary Hub, 24 July 2026 Armstrong was surveyed and platted in 1871 by a representative of the Kansas Pacific Railway Company. — Elijah Winkler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2026 The Boise architecture firm, which filed the preliminary materials for the Black Cat site in March, filed an application with the city in August to correct the lapse and get the site platted. — Rose Evans september 12, Idaho Statesman, 12 Sep. 2025

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And weighty ropes—the sort that might be used to moor a boat—are braided with chains and arranged on the ground in the form of a curving river.

— Carolina A. Miranda, The New York Review of Books, 5 Sep. 2026
Her glossy hair, braided into two plaits, hung down over her shoulders in a style unusual for young girls these days.

— Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 4 Aug. 2026

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