as in side
a place, space, or direction away from or beyond a central point or line
painted the name of the ship along its flank
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as in to join
to be adjacent to
the guards flank the center on a football team's offensive line
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Recent Examples of flank
Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
The subtleties of Baer’s composition in relationship to the flanks defy easy summary.
—Sarah K. Rich, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder, is close to the White House, having flanked Trump for announcements on data centers and other pledges.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
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Noun
All this is controlled via a discrete pusher hidden on the watch head’s top flank, which is revealed when the case is removed from its housing and rotated 90 degrees.
—Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
The subtleties of Baer’s composition in relationship to the flanks defy easy summary.
—Sarah K. Rich, Artforum, 1 Apr. 2025
Verb
The power button sits on the top right of the metal frame, while a USB-C slot is flanked by two speaker grilles on the bottom.
—PC Magazine, 3 Apr. 2025
Larry Ellison, Oracle’s founder, is close to the White House, having flanked Trump for announcements on data centers and other pledges.
—Cnn.com, Mercury News, 2 Apr. 2025
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This April 3, 2025, photo taken at the Battleship Missouri Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, shows fragments of the Japanese Zero fighter that a kamikaze pilot flew into the side of the USS Missouri during the Battle of Okinawa on April 11, 1945.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
11 Apr. 2025
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Bald Eagle 390’s story On July 11, 2024 a male bald eagle (later designated as Bald Eagle 24-390 or just 390 for short) was spotted on the side of the road near Vienna, Missouri with an obvious facial injury.—
Laura Baisas,
Popular Science,
10 Apr. 2025
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Korir, who won last year’s Chicago Marathon, joins his older brother Wesley as a winner of the Boston Marathon, the first siblings to do so.—
Rebecca Morin,
USA Today,
22 Apr. 2025
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Connecticut was the 17th state to join the country-wide movement to legalize cannabis in 2012.—
David Goldburg,
Hartford Courant,
21 Apr. 2025
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From today it can be found in the room adjoining Mark Rothko’s iconic Seagram Murals, enabling the public to see two of America’s greatest modern painters in dialogue with each other.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes.com,
3 Apr. 2025
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Plans called for a tent city adjoining that migrant facility to be built that could house the numbers mentioned by Trump and other senior administration officials.—
Luis Martinez,
ABC News,
29 Mar. 2025
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Since the fiddle is so approachable, every hand that touches it has the ability to impact its sound.—
Katherine Polcari,
Southern Living,
19 Apr. 2025
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Buy Now for $176 In the compilation video, Hurley stands atop rocks on the beach and walks on the white sandy beaches of the island before letting her feet touch the water.—
Starr Bowenbank,
People.com,
18 Apr. 2025
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Not to mention the endless possibilities surrounding our island Postmaster General interacting with the Hostmaster General.—
Dalton Ross,
EW.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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As temperatures in the California deserts begin to rise, so does the anticipation surrounding the 2025 Coachella Music and Arts Festival.—
Thania Garcia,
Variety,
10 Apr. 2025
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Violence tops voters’ concerns Voters are primarily worried about the violence that has transformed the country, starting in 2021 — a spike in crime tied to the trafficking of cocaine produced in neighboring Colombia and Peru.—
Gonzalo Solano and Regina Garcia Cano,
Los Angeles Times,
14 Apr. 2025
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Princess Margaret Beach and neighboring Lower Bay Beach are the showpieces of an island undeniably blessed with some of the nicest shores in the region.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
13 Apr. 2025
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“Flank.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flank. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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