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plaster

[plas-ter, plah-ster] / ˈplæs tər, ˈplɑ stər /




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Nikos Mavroudis, a 17-year-old high school student in Athens' Exarchia neighbourhood, said the money could be better spent on his school, where chunks of plaster are falling.

From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026

Officially, it’s closed because a section of the Grand Foyer ceiling gave way in a storm, plaster crashing to the floor, and the building needed to be shut down for safety.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"But someone has to go through the pain barrier and rip the plaster off."

From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2026

Jacobs’ residence is constructed from stone and plaster, with a slate roof and copper trim.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 9, 2026

The crack on the back of the ukulele had been neatly mended with sticking plaster and the round hole in the middle was covered by a piece of wood.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

And compared with the bronzes, the plasters are especially sensitive, fragile—you’re drawn to protect them, but any touch seems like it would be too much for these waifish bodies.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 19, 2026

"Teachers have been putting sticking plasters on education for too long," she said.

From BBC ● Feb. 7, 2025

He plasters them across the city in hopes of bringing ‘little expressions of joy’ to Angelenos.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2024

All of the commonly used sanitary equipment such as paper, cotton, surgical masks, and commercial plasters exhibited intrinsic multi-pathway antibacterial activity with rapid responses against a broad spectrum of microbial species.

From Science Daily ● Feb. 1, 2024

Each time this happens, even now, the nuns beam and kiss my cheek and shake my hand and give me fancy certificates that Maman plasters on the cardboard wall at home.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple

About the theory that she would only be engaging with these people if she were plastered?

From Slate ● Oct. 15, 2026

At first, his tracks were posted anonymously on SoundCloud, as a way to separate the art from the dozens of images of him seasonally plastered in Supreme advertisements.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In Nanjie, countless murals of the former Chinese leader are plastered around the village.

From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026

In Manila, her face is plastered across a billboard on Epifanio de los Santos Avenue, the city’s longest stretch of highway.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

And the walls of our living room were plastered with white papers.

From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan

Branding was a big part of the event, with Pakistan dubbing the process the "Islamabad Talks", and plastering a logo combining the Pakistani, US and Iranian flags all over the city.

From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026

At home in this milieu, Parker mastered the art of grassroots promotion, of pulling in large crowds by plastering the town with loud, hyperbolic placards.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2025

To say an animal is experiencing a certain feeling is not plastering a human emotion on an inhuman thing.

From Salon ● Feb. 18, 2025

Wider projects involving stonemasonry and plastering on historical buildings in and around Eyemouth are planned on the back of the success of restoring Bee.

From BBC ● Jan. 28, 2025

People offered huge sums for his mandolin, his paintbrushes, his plastering tools.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day


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