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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

A consortium has agreed to buy Patrick Drahi’s French telecommunications operations for more than $23 billion, in a deal that dismantles a major plank of the billionaire’s once-sprawling business empire.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 7, 2026

In 2026, Angelenos should be focused on electing people and approving initiatives that will improve the city for everyone, not a narrow plank benefiting a slice of the population.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

And bit by bit, some underground living quarters, particularly those occupied by officers, were outfitted with such domestic comforts as electric lights, plank floors, fixed bedsteads, even carpets and pictures.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman

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

During a typical session, he does supersets of barbell hip thrusts, planks and walking lunges with 30-pound dumbbells.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 16, 2026

In the beginning, Peck says it was easy to find trees and hire a mobile sawmill to cut them into planks.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 8, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 27, 2026

A seam appeared in the deck between two planks, and water started bubbling through.

From "Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky" by Kwame Mbalia

"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

The pair are split on who is the toughest: Gosling immediately says it is his co-star, joking that she was "planking" in a Pilates session the day before while everyone else was having a nap.

From BBC ● Apr. 30, 2024

The pangrams from yesterday’s Spelling Bee were painkilling and planking.

From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 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

Suffice to say, you won't catch Charles Barkley planking anytime soon, but it's clear his true vendetta lies with vegetables, the insidious little tubulars that infiltrate our bodies minds with without us even knowing it.

From Golf Digest ● Feb. 3, 2020

The walls are so thick and the planking on the floors so solid that sound in the residence seems to get absorbed quickly.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama