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Golden rice fields stretch across the Vercelli plain between Milan and Turin, a parcelled landscape broken only by the wood and wetlands created by Cerutti, now home to rare birds and insects.

From Barron's ● Oct. 12, 2026

Claire spoke plain English, and he would go on “Dodger Talk” on Sunday mornings to speak directly with fans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2026

The 'little piece of post-war history hiding in plain sight'

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

The advanced techniques appear almost entirely in decorated pottery, while everyday plain vessels continued to be made with simpler local methods.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 6, 2026

It was just a plain ordinary unmarked letter addressed to Jonah.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

It is a Grand Anvil Chorus that these sturdy sledges are playing across the plains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

News of the home invasion spread rapidly across the rolling plains of southwestern Oklahoma.

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Water can take about a day to reach the Bihar plains from the Nepal mountain front along the Kosi and Gandak, and somewhat longer along the Ghaghara.

From BBC ● Sep. 3, 2026

Deep-sea mining companies want to scour the ocean's abyssal plains for mineral deposits and polymetallic nodules laden with nickel, copper and cobalt.

From Barron's ● Aug. 6, 2026

We keep on thru the middle of the day, up hills, down hills, and onward, thru trees that turn from the broad-leafed trees on the plains to more needly kinds, taller and more arrowlike.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness

“I believe a plainer worry sits beneath the briefs and the news releases ... The issue is whether I can be trusted as a steward of Warner’s CNN,” Ellison wrote.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026

He is also often being asked how to zhuzh up plainer fare or find satiety with smaller portions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

His brother Andy, who makes up the final third of the band on drums, it was even plainer than that.

From BBC ● Feb. 5, 2025

We can’t put it any plainer than he does: These assaults “are a direct result of multiple systems’ lack of appropriate resources, placements, and services” for kids in dire need.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

No, there ain’t an answer that’s any plainer to an old man than it is to me.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt

In “Love and Summer,” William Trevor’s novel of doomed romance and quiet resignation, even the plainest sentence conveys roiling emotion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 9, 2026

As she explained, the Humphreys case is “squarely among ‘the gravest and most important’ cases in which the no-impeachment rule should yield to avoid ‘violating the plainest principles of justice.’

From Slate ● Oct. 20, 2025

Mr Duck KC said: "It was the plainest of intrusions and the fear it caused was inevitable."

From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025

Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.

From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025

I fiddle with the curly mass of my bangs and slouch down, feeling like the plainest girl ever next to the fashion plate that is Katherine Deveraux.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland