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[flahy] / flaɪ /






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“Casting becomes infinitely easier versus trying to get people to fly in from L.A. to a production elsewhere.”

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 17, 2026

One traveler on Reddit said they were scheduled to fly from LAX to Kona on Sunday afternoon.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 16, 2026

So it goes, even when Hal uses his ring to zip into the sky at supersonic speed from California to Rushville, Nebraska, leaving John to fly coach and rent a car to meet him there.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

Most recently, the Italian navy, in conjunction with other EU countries, boarded a tanker in the central Mediterranean suspected of not being entitled to fly the flag it claimed.

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“It’s dumb. But it’s just that, you know, you have the ability to fly and X-ray vision and superstrength and stuff. But sometimes I think it’s probably better to have a really dumb power.”

From "Firegirl" by Tony Abbott

Swaths of stubborn flies bother his mechanics as they work, and he’s had to redo paint jobs and clear coats tainted by the thick dust from the warehouse.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

The carcass of a four-month-old calf, swarming with flies, lay half-devoured by hyenas.

From Barron's Aug. 13, 2026

Noxious smoke and an influx of rats and flies attracted to rotting meat stored at the facility have tormented neighbors.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

He acknowledges that patrons don't want to see flies when they're purchasing food or drinks to consume.

From BBC Aug. 9, 2026

It flies across the aisle, nearly stabbing Titus in the leg.

From "Clairboyance" by Kristiana Kahakauwila

One pivotal moment comes when Mckenna Grace’s punk-singer character hands Tommy a charmingly Xeroxed flyer to a warehouse gig and gives out her phone number rather than a Snapchat handle.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 5, 2026

By early February of that year, the company was days away from announcing its new plan to car dealers, including a fax-based marketing plan and promotional flyer, ready for final approval.

From Salon Mar. 30, 2026

The bloc lets diplomats rack up frequent flyer miles, and politicians pose for pictures with other leaders.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

Now, all it takes is for a content page to drop a flyer and poof: a crowd that can swallow the park whole.

From Slate Feb. 28, 2026

But Johannes stubbornly dropped a flyer into the doorway.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

It’s the flyest — all the young ballers are in there.

From Los Angeles Times May 9, 2025

She told her fellow graduates and their families that they were “the flyest class ever to do it.”

From Seattle Times Jul. 15, 2023

Unlike her fellow Jersey teens who insist that superheroes aren’t cool, Kamala Khan, the heroine of Marvel’s upcoming Ms. Marvel series, thinks capes are the flyest thing in the world.

From The Verge Mar. 15, 2022

The coolest, the flyest, and the funniest dudes are all gone.

From Salon Apr. 23, 2019

Bamberger’s is one of the flyest department stores in downtown Newark.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Two weeks after Hamas publicly signed on to the latest phase of the deal, Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law and special envoy, flew to Egypt ahead of expected talks on Monday in Jerusalem.

From Barron's Aug. 16, 2026

Many visitors, like Weinstock, who flew using travel points, had to buy tickets more than six months in advance.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 14, 2026

In 1813, in Kentucky, the ornithologist John James Audubon calculated that 300 million birds an hour flew above him, times 24 hours, for three solid days.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 13, 2026

"When we won, this perfect V of geese flew right over our heads and over the clubhouse."

From BBC Aug. 13, 2026

“Oh my, you flew here? Oh my, oh my. That was very brave. Yes, very courageous. Couldn’t see myself up in the sky.”

From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el

That cut the Guardians’ lead to three runs before Will Smith flied out to deep center to end it.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 1, 2026

But he flied out to center to end the inning, extending his recent hitless streak to 16 at-bats.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 3, 2025

Will Smith pinch-hit for Michael Conforto at the last second — literally running out of the dugout with Conforto already digging in at the plate — but flied out to center.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 3, 2025

He struck out in his next trip to the plate, then flied out to left in the fifth inning.

From Los Angeles Times May 2, 2025

In the year 1825, when the great flood inundated whole Broek, men as well as cattle flied into the church, which lies so much higher and remained quite free of water.

From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.

She wasn’t about to bungle the sighting for her client, a photographer who’d flown to Africa for this exact moment.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 16, 2026

The room was on the 15th floor or something, and I guess the bird had flown into the glass.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

In the past, North Korean missiles have flown over Japan, triggering sirens, smartphone alerts and special programming on television.

From Barron's Aug. 11, 2026

“But they did not say he was somewhere he was not, and within hours officials revealed that he had been flown to a military facility in Nebraska.”

From Salon Aug. 11, 2026

“You shouldn’t have flown tonight,” Vera scolded her.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

It said the captain's initial test produced a result requiring "confirmatory testing", external and that both pilots had been removed from flying duties pending the inquiry.

From BBC Aug. 15, 2026

For Leon Berkers, whose restaurant boat has been stuck in the mud for more than a month, adaptation has so far meant improvising fixes to keep "pots and pans from flying around."

From Barron's Aug. 15, 2026

The team is flying back home on Friday night.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

By keeping the action and themes largely Earthbound and removing the interstellar glamour associated with flying supes and suits, “Lanterns” reignites our consideration of a superhero long written off in the live-action realm.

From Salon Aug. 14, 2026

It wouldn’t matter that I’d done the crime in some unknown future or that current me had no flying clue what was going on.

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin




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