planks

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Sitting atop the RCA Building, today better known as 30 Rock, the ironworkers were not as free-flying as they seem: The author suggests there would have been planks about 12 feet below.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026

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

From MarketWatch • Mar. 27, 2026

Wark told AFP that Canada's challenge in the Arctic has two main planks.

From Barron's • Mar. 13, 2026

Excavators were at work along the shoreline - houses built on wooden stilts over the lagoon were still being pulled down, their planks collapsing into the water below.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2026

Aunt Goldie dropped her ice-cream spoon onto the porch planks.

From Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles