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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 plates
From comfort food classics to more elevated plates, several bites stood out at a preview event.
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Alexa Stone
january 9, Kansas City Star, 9 Jan. 2026
Your purchase includes dinner plates, salad plates, pasta bowls, cereal bowls, and mugs — enough for six people.
—Izzy Baskette, PEOPLE, 9 Jan. 2026
Tyler is an upbeat, engaged presence, a blur of motion in a bow tie or snappy hat, delivering plates or uncorking bottles of wine.
—Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2026
The hotel restaurants includes Enga, which serves elevated alpine cuisine in an upscale indoor-outdoor dining room, and the Antler Room, a lounge slinging cocktails and shared plates.
—Asa Canty, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2026
Understanding the the global impact of society’s many shifting plates — from tariffs and trade deals, to political undercurrents and wars — is crucial to keeping sustainable fashion on a positive course.
—Bella Webb, Vogue, 8 Jan. 2026
Style your living room with new throw pillow covers and blankets, design a relaxing bedroom with natural cotton sheets, set the table with stoneware plates, or make your kitchen even more functional with premium baking dishes and wooden utensils.
—Caley Sturgill, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2026
As oil and gas form—and as tectonic plates move—the rock surrounding these deposits begins to fracture.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 2026
Indonesia’s tectonic complexity results from the convergence of multiple plates.
—Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for plates
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From eye masks for red-eye flights to travel makeup bags, packing cubes, luggage scales, and more, these are the tools that keep overpacking (and overthinking) at bay.—
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Charts use different vertical scales.—
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Dustin further diagrams all of this for the entire team in Episode 7.—
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By working with a wide range of manufacturing industry data—from maintenance manuals and machine automation code to complex diagrams, 3D drawings, and process data—gen AI has the potential to establish new ways for people and machines to collaborate.—
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Line two baking sheets with parchment paper or silicone baking mats.—
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Some adventurous souls actually want to tempt gravity, using axes to climb frozen waterfalls or sheets of ice.—
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Certain graphics on this page may be affected by ad-blocking software.—
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Since then, Hjeltness has expanded the shop’s focus from primarily everyday business printing — think business cards, letterhead, invoices — to additionally incorporate more colorful marketing materials, wide-format banners and storefront graphics.—
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Western counterparts often acknowledge them privately, even as public backlash from some European institutions and media figures ensued against Rubio’s candor.—
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The Mean Green’s best football season ever wasn’t even over before the major figures from that team left, or announced their intentions to bounce ASAP; when the season did end, moments after UNT defeated San Diego State to win the New Mexico Bowl, is when the great Denton flood began.—
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The document that landed Wednesday numbers 10 pages, with illustrations and cover letter — although supplemental material reached some 250 pages.—
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This was a darker point in Bowie's career, expressed by Cordell through the use of grey, black and red in his illustrations.—
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“Plates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plates. Accessed 20 Jan. 2026.
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