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fly by
verb as in pass
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Some of the groups have been around for decades, others are fly-by-night.
It was scheduled to be a 300-day fly-by of Mars with many hundreds of experiments to perform on the way.
And he had no engine power, it was a spectacular example of fly-by-wire-and-seat-of-pants.
And Sullenberger was flying an Airbus—the smaller A320, but with identical “fly-by-wire” controls to those of the A330.
The Airbus was as “fly-by-wire” plane, which means that the flaps on the wings are commanded by wires rather than manual tubes.
What gets me is, when you boil our two fly-by-night stories down, I've come here to be alone.
The inhabitants could be no desperate fly-by-nights, such as Saleratus Bill would most likely have sought as companions.
She now knew where she was, but was nearly dying from the exhaustion of his fly-by-night expeditions.
Throughout the country local managers began to steal the Madison Square plays and put them on with "fly-by-night" companies.
Theres hundreds of these little fly-by-night mining camps in this here Western country.
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On this page you'll find 59 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fly by, such as: catch, cross, develop, give, go, and happen.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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