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In era when so much about the news is just plain depressing, what stands out about the burgeoning public rebellion against Flock security cameras is just how fun it all is.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2026

Add up the money, gasoline and vacation days spent on something we know will recur somewhere on Earth whether or not we show up, and the absurdity is plain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026

He wore plain clothes, including a black hoodie, and glasses.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

The plain answer is that it has none.

From Slate ● Aug. 10, 2026

"No, it's just a plain brown porkypine. And he has a little tail at the back."

From "All About Sam" by Lois Lowry

The giant beast lived some 72 to 66 million years ago -- a period characterized by a warm climate, high sea levels and vast floodable coastal plains.

From Barron's ● Jul. 14, 2026

Priyadarshini said she has long been interested in studying spiders that live at high elevations because those environments differ greatly from the lowland plains in both vegetation and landscape.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

“Little House on the Prairie” is the third television adaptation to bear the name of Laura Ingalls Wilder’s 1935 autobiographical novel of life on the Kansas plains in 1869 to 1870.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 9, 2026

Those monumental physical traces are to be found in the fertile plains, mountainsides and deserts of the Middle East.

From BBC ● May 25, 2026

From the Pueblo communities of the Southwest, travelers took roads eastward onto the semiarid plains along tributaries of the Pecos River.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases ... The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,” Ellison wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He is also often being asked how to zhuzh up plainer fare or find satiety with smaller portions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

A plainer recent example of pure Lynchian quirk is tough to come by.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025

The male peacocks have the extravagant plumage to attract mates, while the females are a plainer colour.

From BBC ● Aug. 28, 2024

After her father’s cruel remarks, Stone told him that she had no intention of ever marrying and that she wished she were even plainer so that no one would ever ask her.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

In “Love and Summer,” William Trevor’s novel of doomed romance and quiet resignation, even the plainest sentence conveys roiling emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

As she explained, the Humphreys case is “squarely among ‘the gravest and most important’ cases in which the no-impeachment rule should yield to avoid ‘violating the plainest principles of justice.’

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2025

Mr Duck KC said: "It was the plainest of intrusions and the fear it caused was inevitable."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

I had picked up a book about adventurous greens, only to fall for the plainest one.

From Salon ● May 26, 2025

I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland