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Under the plain text of the Video Privacy Protection Act, Salazar should be able to hold Paramount liable for its disclosure of his video history.

From Slate ● Oct. 17, 2026

It was a set-up so convoluted that it's doubtful that even Ross, who has been permanently paranoid about being murdered in plain sight, rumbled them.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026

What she means—in plain English—is that Macbeth doesn’t have the nerve.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 2026

It might answer some questions you’ll have during “VisionQuest,” but the dramatic intentions and character relations are plain enough.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

When it comes to food, there are only a few types that he will eat happily: plain rice, plain pasta, plain paratha, plain pizza, chicken nuggets, Cap’n Crunch, and cookies.

From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan

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

From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2026

Some risks can be largely sidestepped: choosing not to build on an earthquake fault line, for example, or in flood plains.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 5, 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

The southern surface is dominated by tall mountains and heavily cratered terrain, while the northern hemisphere consists largely of broad, low-lying plains.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

In political terms, the Hamilton pamphlet was fully as fatal, and perhaps suicidal, as his subsequent decision to face Aaron Burr on the plains of Weehawken.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

A group of participants sued, arguing that the allocation lagged plainer stock and bond funds while charging higher fees.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

“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

Jessica thinks doctors should explain the results using plainer language, and says she had to call her GP for further explanation after receiving her results letter.

From BBC ● Feb. 1, 2025

In plainer English, Cannon chided prosecutors for rushing to file the gag order just before the Memorial Day weekend.

From Salon ● May 28, 2024

The simplest way of making strange facts plainer was to replicate them.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

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

I had picked up a book about adventurous greens, only to fall for the plainest one.

From Salon ● May 26, 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