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plank

[plangk] / plæŋk /
NOUN
board
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In addition to the barre work, we did a plank series, light push-ups and arm work, as well as glutes and core work on the mat.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 28, 2026

Last week, Cracker Barrel said it would divest itself from its Maple Street Biscuit Co. business, a plank of Biglari’s activist campaign with the company.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 27, 2026

"I managed to find a wooden plank, which I clung to for two days and one night," Begum said, noting she eventually caught the attention of a passing rescue ship.

From Barron's Jul. 21, 2026

The man eventually used a wooden plank to guide the bear out of the truck, allowing both to walk away unharmed.

From BBC Jul. 1, 2026

On the floor along the sides of the plank counters there were kegs of nails, and kegs of round, gray shot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy.

From "Little House in the Big Woods" by Laura Ingalls Wilder

We performed classic moves: squats, crunches, high and low planks and bird dogs, among them.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

The slate gray of stormy seas, deep-ocean navy and the rich brown of old ship planks are popular.

From The Wall Street Journal May 27, 2026

For the Tanglewood strategist, though, most of the planks in the investment rationale remain intact.

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

The door had been barricaded - reinforced with planks of wood and bricks - making entry more difficult.

From BBC Mar. 13, 2026

The floor was of wide, heavy planks, almost black in color and unlittered, so that if the key were there it would have been instantly visible.

From "Z for Zachariah" by Robert C. O’Brien

"Bee" is one of the very few remaining Stroma yoles – a small open-decked boat with a planked hull - that once served the now abandoned island off the northern mainland.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

I planked on the lake shore and did box jumps onto the deck steps.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 14, 2022

The parents always made sure that there was enough firewood to fuel the stove during the winter months, that the planked floors maintained a glossy shine.

From Washington Post Jun. 3, 2021

And most importantly, will we still be amusingly able to closely approximate it by tossing a gazillion nails on a wood planked floor?

From Slate Mar. 13, 2015

The floor is planked with rough boards, and in places I can see clear through to the ground below.

From "Orphan Train" by Christina Baker Kline

Bee was built using age-old clinker planking techniques for a co-operative of crofters from Stroma which sits between Orkney and the mainland.

From BBC Jan. 28, 2025

The researchers dug three shallow trenches at the site and unearthed wood fragments and iron planking rivets that were thought to have once been part of a ship.

From New York Times May 31, 2024

What they brought was a piece of brick that was likely part of the ship’s steam boiler, and planking from its hull.

From Seattle Times Dec. 25, 2022

Suffice to say, you won't catch Charles Barkley planking anytime soon, but it's clear his true vendetta lies with vegetables, the insidious little tubulars that infiltrate our bodies minds with without us even knowing it.

From Golf Digest Feb. 3, 2020

Nailer swam close to the planking and grinned.

From "Ship Breaker" by Paolo Bacigalupi




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