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How to use the word SLATE in a Sentence?

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By imagining the end of the world as we know it, it helps us question this world, these narratives return us to a blank slate – no infrastructures, no governments.

– De Cristofaro

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We want to start with a clean slate, coming at this from maybe a new fresh perspective, looking at what’s been done in the past. What legislation currently in place isn’t working? And figuring out either do we expand on that or do we pull back and look at a new policy that would actually be much more effective?

– Stephanie Bice

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We haven’t had an internal conversation about it, we should be able to put forward a slate of committee assignments which includes Rep. Ilhan Omar on Foreign Affairs.

– Hakeem Jeffries

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

It may mean that the current slate of elected politicians are conservative but more likely that they are responding to pressure from some powerful conservative lobby groups.

– Norshahril Saat

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We’re just gonna put all the information out there try to get a clean slate we will be iteratively better and it will force other media companies to also be more truthful or else they’ll lose their readership.

– Elon Musk

Found on FOX News
1 year ago

The video reveals that Cathy Latham had a more significant role with the SullivanStrickler team's work in Coffee County than Cathy Latham claimed, we can see Cathy Latham escort the team into the office that morning, for example. And she's an important connection to the effort to create a slate of Georgia electors who would have wrongly voted for Trump for the 2020 election, which now looks to be the subject of a grand jury investigation in Fulton County.

– David Cross

Found on CNN
1 year ago

We stepped up to a great deal that they very much deserve, who would you want more for your unscripted slate than the Kardashians? They perfectly symbolize our strategy, which is taking big shots, but the right shots, and betting on incredible talent and best-in-class opportunities in each genre.

– Dana Walden

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Russia's not writing on a clean slate. Russia has had a state sponsored doping program since at least the 1960s. It is very well established, it is heavily documented. And so when any Russian athlete tests positive, the Russian state is not doing anyone any favors because there is now a presumption of guilt instead of a presumption of innocence, which for a 15-year-old skater is terrible.

– Jim Walden

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The best way to move forward with some bipartisan suggestions is to wipe the slate clean, get a new sheet of paper and sit down with people like Joe Manchin and (Sen. Kyrsten) Sinema, D-Ariz., and others who want to be serious about bipartisan solutions and move forward.

– Kevin Cramer

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The intensity of competition is going to pick up in 2022, you have sports being rolled out on streaming. You have Lord of the Rings coming from Amazon( AMZN). You've got Discovery and HBO Max merging, so more content there. And Disney's backend content slate is coming.

– Michael Nathanson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Online retailers have the ability to track our purchases and what we search for online, so it's important for people to know that they're not shopping on a blank slate, with that knowledge, it's worth looking around for retailers who do provide the information.

– Jennifer Pomeranz

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Vera Institute of Justice is a behemoth progressive nonprofit based out of New York City with well over a $140 million budget, which they use to fund a slate of progressive causes and initiatives across the country, whether that be criminal justice reform, bail reform and also immigration.

– Jason Hopkins

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So there could well be -- and I believe there is -- an issue with the composition of the of the committee, since it does not have a full slate of Republican members and there's some issue about how the Republican members were appointed.

– Stanley Brand

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Over 2.5 million households have been helped by emergency rental assistance, with back rent paid, these families have a clean slate and some housing stability to help get through the next wave of the pandemic. But many struggling renters have yet to receive assistance, through no fault of their own, and remain at risk of losing their home this winter.

– Diane Yentel

Found on CNN
2 years ago

As a judge I would be asking (potential jurors) to make that commitment to set aside what they believe the facts to be and set aside what they believe the law to be, to essentially be a tabula rasa, a blank slate.

– William Hanrahan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

So if somebody were just to say, I don't like the results, even though they were properly conducted and there's no evidence of fraud, I don't like the results as I'm going to certify my favorite slate of electors. The political reaction to that would be so severe and so swift, and nobody would do that. And nobody has done it in 150 years. But what we have here is a systematic violation of state laws by election officials, t his level of corruption just can't be allowed to stand. And I think that makes, I think that makes the exercise of the vice president's power here very compelling.

– John Eastman

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Ensuring everyone gets an opportunity, a look, when you have a diverse slate and have more than one minority or diverse candidate... the chance of a candidate being interviewed who is diverse goes up exponentially. Maximize the opportunities, and we also wanted to make sure there was n’t a case where there was only one candidate who is diverse who is being interviewed. Research shows a lot of times there could be bias in the opportunity for that person to get hired and have a role.

– Jonathan Beane

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The economic outcomes are going to be with our students and their families even longer, there would not be a better time in my opinion for them to be able to start with a clean slate.

– Larry Robinson

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Every state certified one and only one slate of presidential electors based on the 2020 election results, what states( is John Eastman) talking about ? What dual slates ?

– Elie Honig

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I struggle with this because I don't want little girls watching or anything like that to lower their sights or anything in that direction. But for me, I feel that if that was in the scope of my ambition, it would chip away at my courage today, i think what happens a lot in politics is that people are so motivated to run for certain higher office that they compromise in fighting for people today. And the idea is that if you can be as clean of a slate or as blank of a slate, that it makes it easier for you to run for higher office later on.

– New York

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Electing even a portion of Engine 1's slate would send a clear message of shareholder dissatisfaction with Exxon's recent direction and strategy.

– Glass Lewis

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Because of the increase in vaccination availability, a very exciting slate of new releases and pent-up audience demand, we're extremely confident that by the end of 2021, the cinema industry — and our theaters specifically — will be thriving.

– Tim League

Found on CNN
3 years ago

We believe that Biden's Cabinet appointments are just the starting point for a slate of demands that Black people and other people of color have, for us, diversity is just table stakes. It's like the baseline thing that needs to happen.

– Arisha Hatch

Found on CNN
3 years ago

There are millions of Disney + subscribers that spend $ 50 to $ 80 a year just for eight weeks of' The Mandalorian.' If Disney Animation can get Disney Animation Marvel series slate right, those customers should be willing to pay a lot more for Disney Animation + in the coming years, marvel Studios is the most successful entertainment franchise in history.

– Matthew Ball

Found on CNN
3 years ago

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