How to Use slate in a Sentence
- The house has a slate roof.
- Some school blackboards are made of slate.
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Pacheco and Bei ran as a slate.
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William Melhado,
Sacbee.com,
2 Oct. 2025
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So why isn’t Ohtani on the slate?
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Barry M. Bloom,
Sportico.com,
30 Sep. 2025
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Here’s the lowdown on the slate.
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Jesse Whittock,
Deadline,
29 Aug. 2025
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In a slate-gray trench over a turtleneck!
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Emma Specter,
Vogue,
12 Jan. 2026
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Here’s the full slate for 2026.
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
3 Feb. 2026
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Day slate, as losers of eight of their last 11 games.
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Mike Curtis,
Dallas Morning News,
20 Jan. 2026
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For the season, the clubs split the six-game slate.
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Kansas City Star,
21 June 2026
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The initial four-film slate is seen as just the start.
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Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
29 Oct. 2025
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Ryan was talking about the slate roof — this is a super‑expensive roof.
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David Caraccio
april 4,
Sacbee.com,
4 Apr. 2026
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Now, Jensen will get a full 162-game slate.
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Kansas City Star,
4 Feb. 2026
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The plan is to produce a full slate next season.
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Lisa Gutierrez,
Kansas City Star,
22 Oct. 2025
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Details of the new slate will be announced soon.
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Liz Shackleton,
Deadline,
19 Sep. 2025
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See the full slate of spring premiere dates below.
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Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
17 Feb. 2026
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See a strong performance from this week’s slate of games?
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
9 Feb. 2026
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See a strong performance from this week’s slate of games?
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
2 Feb. 2026
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See a strong performance from this week’s slate of games?
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
3 Feb. 2026
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There is still weight around the weekend’s closing slate.
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Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
10 Apr. 2026
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Springsteen doesn’t have any concerts on the slate.
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Lars Brandle,
Billboard,
27 Oct. 2025
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In the settlements there are bricks, slate, and boards.
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Carolyn Forché,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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McKenna-Bruce has a busy slate ahead.
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Alex Ritman,
Variety,
9 Oct. 2025
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The full slate of cookie flavors are set to return this year.
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Tanasia Kenney,
Charlotte Observer,
6 Jan. 2026
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Some of their struggles can be blamed on a tough slate of defenses.
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Michael Salfino,
New York Times,
6 Oct. 2025
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And their slate totally changed.
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Hanna Wickes,
Miami Herald,
3 Mar. 2026
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Today's slate of games starts with a bang in the early window.
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Tyler Everett,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 Sep. 2025
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What’s the recipe for success in Uni’s feature slate?
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Anthony D'alessandro,
Deadline,
7 Sep. 2025
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Kansas has its own slate of permissive gun laws.
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Kacen Bayless,
Kansas City Star,
27 Jan. 2026
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Gates schedules a tough non-district slate for a reason.
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Charles Baggarly,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
13 Sep. 2025
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The show was first announced as part of the cabler’s slate back in May.
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Joe Otterson,
Variety,
24 Sep. 2025
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It was slated to be a long night.
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Martin Suarez,
Rolling Stone,
13 Sep. 2025
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Many of them are slated for the screen.
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Clare Mulroy,
USA Today,
10 Mar. 2026
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The project is slated to last four years.
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Nicole Blanchard,
Idaho Statesman,
10 June 2026
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They are slated to play three league games.
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Eric Sondheimer,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Mar. 2026
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It’s slated to open this spring.
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Brock Keeling,
Oc Register,
7 Jan. 2026
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Now, we’re all slated to die at some point.
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Allie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
23 Oct. 2025
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The cash-and-stock deal is slated to close in the first half of next year.
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Alex Harring,
CNBC,
16 June 2026
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But the reunion is slated to film soon.
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Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
2 Apr. 2026
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Samuel, by the way, is slated for free agency in two weeks.
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Cam Inman,
Mercury News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Read on to see the full lineup of artists slated to take the stage.
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Monica Mercuri,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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The actress is slated to present tonight.
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Christina Perrier,
InStyle,
11 Jan. 2026
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Zinger is slated to go to trial in May.
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Louis Casiano,
FOXNews.com,
30 Jan. 2026
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The deal had been in the works for years — and once was slated to be much bigger.
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Thomas Gounley,
Denver Post,
4 Mar. 2026
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The pair is slated to be sentenced in June.
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City News Service,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Apr. 2026
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That project is slated to begin in May.
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Sarah Bahari,
Dallas Morning News,
5 Jan. 2026
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The project is slated to cost $6 million.
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Josephine Stratman,
New York Daily News,
2 Feb. 2026
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Gaga is also slated to make a surprise cameo in the show.
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Mitchell Peters,
Billboard,
30 Aug. 2025
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Eight train sets are slated for the Cascades.
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Deirdre Bardolf,
FOXNews.com,
14 Feb. 2026
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The project is slated for completion by the end of next year.
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Laura Turbay,
Chicago Tribune,
5 Mar. 2026
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Construction of this home is slated to start in just a few weeks.
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James Alexander,
Hartford Courant,
1 Mar. 2026
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It is slated for an April opening.
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Noah Lyons,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
22 Jan. 2026
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The former stage theater space is slated to be torn down.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
19 Jan. 2026
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Kinsho is slated to open in March.
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Matthew Odam,
Austin American Statesman,
30 Jan. 2026
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The film is slated to be released later this month.
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Ellise Shafer,
Variety,
20 Apr. 2026
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More early voting sites are slated to open next week.
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Mary Ramsey,
Charlotte Observer,
28 Aug. 2025
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The singer promised to reschedule for all the cities she had been slated to visit.
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David K. Li,
NBC News,
26 May 2023
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The shops are slated for a mixed-use conversion.
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Sacbee.com,
24 Feb. 2026
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Winfield is slated to serve as the lead agency.
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Molly Morrow,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Jan. 2026
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They are slated to reopen sometime in the spring.
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Ella Gonzales
april 1,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
1 Apr. 2026
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The grocery store was slated to open this summer.
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Samantha Gowen,
Oc Register,
13 Oct. 2025
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