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plank

[plangk] / plæŋk /
NOUN
board
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Though Alicia emerged victorious, Christiane held a plank for over three minutes, arms trembling and gritting her teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 12, 2026

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

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

“Nice,” Teeth says, waddling under the broken plank.

From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz

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

From BBC Jul. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 15, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Mar. 27, 2026

Hence, an episode interwoven with his anti-war, anti-nuke and anti-corporate profiteering planks also enabled him to criticize broadcast media’s lack of inclusion.

From Salon Feb. 22, 2026

The floor was made of solid wooden planks, old and knotty.

From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles

"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

He brought us to a neighboring building and led us through a long, sepia-hued chamber with deep empty wood vessels on either side of a narrow planked floor.

From New York Times Apr. 23, 2018

We followed the 10-mile auto tour around Lower Klamath Lake and walked down planked paths to photo blinds, watching from a distance as egrets, pelicans and countless small birds nosed around the lake’s perimeter.

From Washington Post Oct. 8, 2015

In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.

From "The Martian Chronicles" by Ray Bradbury

This means the site, which includes planking, frames, fixtures and fittings, can be dived on but should remain untouched.

From BBC Aug. 14, 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

“It’s a meme,” he explains, like planking or owling.

From New York Times Jun. 20, 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

After the scaffolding was up, I observed them putting wooden planking on all four sides of the obelisk.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman




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