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Already, the key plank of his campaign had been to increase payments to member associations all over the world for development projects.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 31, 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 ban on advertising, including by influencers, is a central plank of the bill, though questions remain over how it could be enforced.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 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

Cluny climbed on to the plank and tested it.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

"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

Hewing is the ancient art of cutting logs into beams or planks for timber frames.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 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

That’s why I focus on the basics—hip mobility, planks, squats or dead lifts, rows, shoulder work and rotational drills.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 6, 2026

We had begun with the floor, which we built by laying wide planks between two quite far-apart branches and nailing them down.

From "The Witches" by Roald Dahl

"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

There are also dozens of variants — pickets, corrugated panels, berms, X-shaped steel barriers, even planked walls placed along Gulf Coast beaches.

From New York Times ● Jan. 31, 2019

Art can lose something when you have to explain it, but Hogan planked out the statue’s meaning for anyone too dense to get it.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 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 groynes are being replaced using tropical hardwood and recycled planking, with work expected to be completed by the end of March 2024.

From BBC ● Nov. 29, 2023

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

Just a narrow sandy stretch of shoreline, a few piles sunk in the river with rough planking for a platform.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare