dinner plate
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The rare items, which have been loaned by the Royal Navy Museum, include a bowl and dinner plate, a boot and belt buckle and an ointment pot.
From BBC ● May 26, 2026
While a single 300 millimeter silicon wafer normally produces a few dozen chips, Cerebras uses the entire wafer for one chip, about the size of a dinner plate.
From Barron's ● May 15, 2026
Pharmaceutical scientist Associate Professor Kamal Dua of the University of Technology Sydney estimates that adults consume about 250 grams of microplastics each year, roughly the amount needed to cover a dinner plate.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 13, 2026
Buried in the ground, returned to the soil from which grass will grow and be grazed upon by animals that will end up on a dinner plate somewhere.
From Salon ● Apr. 28, 2024
I approached an iron block as big as a farmer’s cottage and broke off a single flake of rust large as a dinner plate.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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