gangplank
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When the 380-foot steamship Great Republic—one of the world’s largest passenger vessels at the time—arrived in San Francisco from Hong Kong, 1,300 blue-coated Chinese laborers filed down its gangplank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
One outside Fort Worth built a gangplank 22 feet above an arcade floor — walk it if you dare.
From New York Times ● May 31, 2023
The couple was arrested on March 31, 2021, on the gangplank at Port Newark–Elizabeth Marine Terminal in New Jersey and held without bail.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 3, 2023
They got him to sick bay early that evening, she said, and soon after wheeled him down the gangplank.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2020
I walked down the gangplank & headed...who knows where?
From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman
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