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This semester, she instructed a group of students picking green beans to be gentle and to do plank exercises to avoid back pain.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026

Rhys: I don’t do much with Instagram but my algorithm is generally older men showing you how to kind of spile a garboard plank next to a keel, things like that.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

"I managed to find a wooden plank, which I clung to for two days and one night," Begum said, noting she eventually caught the attention of a passing rescue ship.

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

He offers the bottom plank from the cedar chest that held our clothes and Bible.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

"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

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

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

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

“I’ll let him know,” I said, peeling my legs off the porch planks.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen

"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

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

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

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

He made his decking fast to close-set ribs before he closed the side with longer planking, then cut a mast pole, and a proper yard, and shaped a steering oar to hold her steady.

From "The Odyssey" by Homer