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“So the next day I plonked it on the table and said, ‘This is what you wanted, isn’t it?’”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 19, 2025

That's where, at the age of 10, she played her first show, improvising songs on a piano plonked down in the forest for anyone to play.

From BBC • Jul. 25, 2022

But it’s telling that the places Aussie writers are inventing are often so geographically vague — so generically featureless, so uniformly desolate — they could be plonked almost anywhere on the national map.

From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022

This kitchen is what happens when you've taken your indoor kitchen outdoors — quite literally ripped it out and plonked it by a lake nestled in between the mountains.

From Salon • Jul. 13, 2022

And so for almost half a stupid year, all the boys were gathered up by sad-faced Mr. Royal and plonked out here in an outbuilding away from the main Noise of the town.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness