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  • noun Plural form of placard.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of placard.

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Examples

  • We found her room and her desk the name placards for all the kids were already laid out, checked out who she would be sitting with and which other kids in her class she might know.

    Elementary, My Dear Watson 2007

  • Banner and Poster Slogans and meticulously photographed and documented hundreds of placards from a demonstration they had broken up.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • I prefer to explain the word placards, either announcing the sale of Camerius's effects, which would imply that he was in debt, or describing him as a lost article.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • I prefer to explain the word placards, either announcing the sale of Camerius's effects, which would imply that he was in debt, or describing him as a lost article.

    Poems and Fragments 2006

  • Or had he tried to implicate Ross by switching the name placards?

    Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005

  • And they took the name placards to examine them for prints.

    Ms Longshot Kurtz, Sylvie 2005

  • I prefer to explain the word placards, either announcing the sale of Camerius's effects, which would imply that he was in debt, or describing him as a lost article.

    The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus

  • Margaret's influence would perhaps have induced Francis to favor the Reformation if the extravagance of some hotheaded people, who posted up certain placards in the year 1534, had not exasperated him to such a degree as to make him become afterwards a violent persecutor of Lutheranism – the name then given in France to what has since been called Calvinism.

    The Heptameron of Margaret, Queen of Navarre 1855

  • I think Micah may have started it, but one by one all the panelists took their name placards, wrote their Twitter handles on the back, then flipped them around so you were looking at a row of people announcing themselves by @handles ....

    Adrian Monck 2009

  • I think Micah may have started it, but one by one all the panelists took their name placards, wrote their Twitter handles on the back, then flipped them around so you were looking a row of people announcing themselves by @handles.

    Facebook usernames and the battle over your digital identity | FactoryCity 2009

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