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A key plank in this emerging strategy involves the most populous Democratic state in the country: California.

From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2026

Though Alicia emerged victorious, Christiane held a plank for over three minutes, arms trembling and gritting her teeth.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 12, 2026

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

The long plank snaked out and upwards, coming to rest gently but firmly on the parapet edge.

From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques

Common examples include wall squats, planks, and handgrip exercises.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026

As teams drag mattresses and wooden planks onto the truck, they tell a similarly frustrated story.

From BBC ● Oct. 26, 2026

"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

“What did I get myself into?” he asked, finding kitchen equipment, furniture, clothes, bottles, a family picture, and wooden planks with nails pointing upward coating the floor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

I took the baby from her arms, and Opal slumped to the ground, wetting the wood planks with her tears.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

"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

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

And most importantly, will we still be amusingly able to closely approximate it by tossing a gazillion nails on a wood planked floor?

From Slate ● Mar. 13, 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

But wall squats and planking led to larger falls than aerobic exercise.

From BBC ● Jul. 25, 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

“Swift decisive action at that point was the difference between planking the curve and a runaway epidemic,” Hayhoe said.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 21, 2020

In spite of the rain and the throbbing pulse down his foreleg, he felt ready to sleep where he was, stretched upon the planking.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams