planking

present participle of plank
as in plopping
to throw or set down clumsily or casually planked the carton down on the counter and left

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Recent Examples of planking To challenge the claim, the research team began testing individual planking panels commonly used in timber-frame construction. Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 4 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for planking
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  • Kopankiewicz said the small dog instantly made herself at home, plopping right into his friend's lap.
    Liz O'Connell, MSNBC Newsweek, 23 Sep. 2025
  • From the Curly Girl Method to T-shirt plopping techniques, there’s no shortage of viral curl styling hacks to to pull from your TikTok feed.
    Grace McCarty, Glamour, 18 Sep. 2025
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  • The sauce can be made ahead and refrigerated for up to one week; rewarm before tossing or brushing on any protein.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 5 Oct. 2025
  • Several men at the docks made a great show of tossing all the luggage from man to man to man, then piling it neatly on the shore.
    Catherine Lacey, New Yorker, 5 Oct. 2025
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  • Splinter after splinter flopping onto the stone threshold, tsss, tsss, hissing like a nest of vipers.
    Zuzana Říhová, Literary Hub, 26 Sep. 2025
  • This Colombian has been flopping in the US since 2003, has apparently not had a job since 2014.
    Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 26 Sep. 2025

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“Planking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/planking. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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