plank
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And next week, he will deliver a speech on foreign policy, in which – for Burnham – Europe is a central plank.
From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026
Like I said earlier, we should mind the plank in our own eye first.
From Salon ● Nov. 2, 2026
A key plank in this emerging strategy involves the most populous Democratic state in the country: California.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026
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
He caught the end of the plank, steadying it.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
Common examples include wall squats, planks, and handgrip exercises.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
As teams drag mattresses and wooden planks onto the truck, they tell a similarly frustrated story.
From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026
"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 said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
We performed classic moves: squats, crunches, high and low planks and bird dogs, among them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 15, 2026
“I’ll let him know,” I said, peeling my legs off the porch planks.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
"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
Make one on a hot summer night to go with his smoked planked Camembert with jalapeños and pepper jelly.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 27, 2016
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 USC Wellness Society made an appearance, and the boutique fitness studio Lagree213 hosted a planking challenge.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 8, 2026
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
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
He closed his eyes and his head slid along over rough planking.
From "Native Son" by Richard Wright
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