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This semester, she instructed a group of students picking green beans to be gentle and to do plank exercises to avoid back pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 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

Rahela Begum survived the horrors of war in Myanmar and life in the world's largest refugee camp in Bangladesh -- only to end up drifting at sea, clinging to a wooden plank.

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

I worked away, nailing the first plank on the roof.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

"Parents came from all over looking for their children. That's when I saw a huge fire engulfing our school built of wooden planks," he added.

From Barron's ● Sep. 10, 2026

Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

In 2007, Princeton released a “Wedges” game online, which Pacala built a prototype for from planks of wood in his garage.

From Salon ● Jun. 26, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026

He filled the seams between the new planks with wool yarn unraveled from a scarf and then caulked them with Marston’s oil paints.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

"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

I’ve never planked or lunged, to my knowledge.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2018

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

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

The groynes are being replaced using tropical hardwood and recycled planking, with work expected to be completed by the end of March 2024.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

The skyward soar of its fir and pine planking makes its setting in the woods feel natural in two senses.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 2, 2021

He closed his eyes and his head slid along over rough planking.

From "Native Son" by Richard Wright