plates
- present tense form of plate (3rd person singular).
Example Sentences
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During his trip, he will also inspect the centuries-old Chola Plates, rings with engraved copper plates, that are being returned to India by Leiden University.
From Barron's • May 16, 2026
Plates couldn’t be refilled until every shrimp was gone, and some servers were tasked with shrimp counting.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026
Plates and napkins should go at the beginning of the line.
From Salon • Mar. 15, 2026
Plates can be bought for less than £50 – but the most lucrative combinations can fetch hundreds of thousands of pounds.
From BBC • Feb. 2, 2025
For thousands of years, the North American Plate, caught between the Pacific and Eurasian Plates, had been squeezed by the two larger plates.
From "Meltdown" by Deirdre Langeland
