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[pleyn] / pleɪn /






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They point out that “solar farm” is a misnomer because the land — an alluvial plane with Yucca colonies dating back hundreds of years, creosote rhizomatic rings even longer — will be scraped and fenced.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 22, 2026

Clark, who was also the biggest buyer of Airbus’s A380, said he had been pushing the plane maker to proceed with a stretched version of the A350.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 21, 2026

The balls will get delivered 200 at a time by plane to help manage the distribution and avoid potential waste.

From BBC Jul. 21, 2026

Mexico is investigating whether the United States violated its sovereignty after the FBI this month exhibited the plane used to transport Zambada.

From Barron's Jul. 20, 2026

Danny wanted to be the first one off the plane and hurried up to the front, where the flight attendant let him off.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.

From BBC May 2, 2025

Through six editions now, their clear, planed prose has proved an essential reference for Angelenos in search of all the treasures that bejewel L.A.’s rumpled topography.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 11, 2023

Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.

From New York Times Feb. 27, 2023

Firefighters planed to use bulldozers to create fire lines protecting Wawona, she said.

From Seattle Times Jul. 10, 2022

These usually bought land, but good land, and built their houses of planed lumber and had carpets and colored-glass diamond panes in their windows.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

"Everybody is frustrated that we didn't get long planing runs," Carroll said on the slipway as Bluebird was towed back into the engineering tent for the final time.

From BBC May 17, 2026

Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.

From Los Angeles Times Nov. 6, 2025

"We understand that the terrorists are planing new strikes. We know this for a fact," Zelenskiy said in his nightly video address.

From Reuters Nov. 27, 2022

On a wet morning in late October, the sound of electrical sanders whirring and the steady thunks of a craftsman planing a chair leg echoed through one of Century Furniture’s cavernous warehouses.

From New York Times Nov. 27, 2021

Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park




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