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The U.S. Department of Agriculture introduced the plate-shaped icon Thursday to replace the pyramid that often was criticized as confusing.
Uncle Sam's Latest Menu Bill Tomson 2011
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Aquatic communities include camalotes, primarily of the genus Eichhornia and Reussia, onagraceae like Victoria cruziana (irupé) with large plate-shaped leaves and white flowers with many petals; we also find Cyperus giganteus (pirí), Typha latifolia and T. Domingensis (totoras) and the beautiful blue-flowered pontederiacea Pontederia lanceolata (cucharero).
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The Kappa has the face of a monkey with the beak of a turtle and a plate-shaped depression in the top of his head.
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Capacitors consist of plate-shaped electrodes that store electricity by creating an electrical field between them.
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The new Leopards created tidy, plate-shaped holes in paper targets, hitting bull's-eyes from 500 metres away.
Archive 2007-12-01 2007
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The new Leopards created tidy, plate-shaped holes in paper targets, hitting bull's-eyes from 500 metres away.
Boom! 2007
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There would originally have been a plate-shaped corona on either side of the head, also engraved with animals.
Archive 2006-08-01 Walter Jon Williams 2006
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There would originally have been a plate-shaped corona on either side of the head, also engraved with animals.
Log of the Eclipse (11) Walter Jon Williams 2006
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He learned that since 1947, when a pilot sighted a formation of plate-shaped objects flying over a mountain range in Washington State and coined the term
Encounter Group Sapir, Richard & Murphy, Warren 1984
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Ashe sorted through the plate-shaped containers of record wire.
Galactic Derelict Norton, Andre 1959
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