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- verb Present participle of
placard .
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Examples
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Horse thievery was considered so heinous a crime that the vigilantes discontinued placarding the dead with their names.
THE AMERICAN WEST DEE BROWN 2007
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And that's how I found myself inside the body politic, trying to figure out how it lived and breathed, how it behaved -- a rock star wandering around the corridors of power rather than placarding at the gates outside.
Bono On Bono Assayas, Michka 2005
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It is shown by the disrespectful manner in which individuals are dealt with in your journals -- the placarding of public men in sensational headings, the dragging of private people and their affairs into print.
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What all the late squibbing and fibbing, placarding, and blackguarding, losing and winning, beering and ginning, and every other _et cetera_, has been about!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various
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Old World for the sole and evident purpose of placarding the pyramids, and introducing his invention for removing stains at some half-ruined cathedral whose famous "spot of blood" is cherished with reverent care.
The New England Magazine, Volume 1, No. 4, Bay State Monthly, Volume 4, No. 4, April, 1886 Various
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But a War Office capable of placarding Lord Roberts's declaration that the men who are enlisting are doing "what all able-bodied men in the kingdom should do" is clearly ignorant enough for anything.
New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 From the Beginning to March, 1915 With Index Various
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"He meant to drag down all belief in goodness by reminding us of dark moments and hours; by placarding the whole soul with the name of some shadow that moves across it, I sometimes think from another world, some deep under-world that yawns beneath us and sends up blackness and fumes and strange cries."
The Daughters of Danaus Mona Caird
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At the time of my visit they were engaged in a strenuous contest with the representatives of the British American Tobacco Company, and both sides were placarding the town with posters setting forth the evils or the benefits of cigarette-smoking.
A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia Elizabeth Kimball Kendall
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In vain the police endeavoured to direct public odium against the prisoners by placarding lists of their names through the whole of Paris, even before they were arrested.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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By a little incident, the placarding of some doggerel verses, I became to some extent the head of the opposition of the new movement.
History of the University of North Carolina. Volume II: From 1868 to 1912 Kemp Plummer 1912
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