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On Tuesday, Hunt Oil, another U.S. wildcatter with a long history of working in far-off jurisdictions, signed a production-sharing agreement with Venezuela to help pump oil from two fields on the country’s eastern flank.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

It and other countries along NATO's eastern flank including Romania and Poland have suffered repeated incursions into their airspace.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Visitors can trade $5 for a small black sphinx, a replica of sculptor Lee Lawrie’s Belgian black marble and bronze sphinxes that flank the north staircase on the library’s second floor.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

This opinion is echoed by the moderate flank of the liberal elite.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

They decided to flank the Long Knives behind the rock.

From "In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse" by Joseph Marshall III

For a Rangers side crying out for attacking guile and inventiveness on the flanks, Curtis being limited to just eight minutes in their Premiership opener against United was surprising.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

It warned of hot volcanic debris flows down Fuego's slopes, with communities on the western and southern flanks at the greatest risk.

From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026

The wide, elevated rift flanks predicted by the new simulations also appear in images captured by the Magellan probe during its 1990's mission.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 25, 2026

Trout, their speckled flanks gleaming in the sun, gulped them down one by one.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 5, 2026

Everyone dismounted, patting his massive flanks and thanking him before gathering around Cymbeline.

From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older

Flores was flanked by a phalanx of attorneys who represent him in both his civil and criminal cases as he arrived in a downtown courtroom to face the charges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

Ludlow announced the show in a splashy speech on the steps of City Hall in February, flanked by Mayor Karen Bass and other civic leaders.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026

Instead of proposing Waddingham as a Bond co-star, she’s the expertly skilled agent flanked by a best friend with an equally formidable intellect – the Moneypenny to her 007.

From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2026

Singer Callum Beattie then appeared - flanked by dancing silver unicorns and stars - and sang Scotland's unofficial football anthem, Yes Sir, I Can Boogie by Baccara.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

Runt rested often, and whenever he did, the other two stopped and flanked him.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker

Kinjo says that reefs flanking his seaside farm consist entirely of corals he cultivated, with their natural peers "no longer able to keep up with a tremendous increase in stress" in the anthropogenically polluted ocean.

From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026

UK government figures from 2024 say an average of 81,578 vehicles passed eastbound every day between the two junctions flanking the Brynglas Tunnels.

From BBC ● May 2, 2026

Primitive by U.S. standards, the silos are little more than deep holes dug into the side of a mountain that point toward the nearby Persian Gulf, flanking a paved entrance to the underground facility.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

That emotional depth lifts each scene, even the darkest— just as the supergroup of talent flanking Smart and Einbinder does.

From Salon ● Apr. 10, 2025

Switching to meows, she directed the cats in a stealthy flanking attack.

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