maneuver
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Some questions, which you should put to your adviser: How much room for maneuver do you have in your current federal tax bracket?
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 2, 2026
The cancellation was done through a maneuver known as a pocket rescission.
From Salon ● Oct. 27, 2026
After prolonged exposure to the viscous fluid, they had become smaller and easier to deform, allowing them to maneuver through the narrow gaps between the device's microscopic pillars.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 24, 2026
In the past, he said his drones could maneuver to evade Russian air defenses, for instance, by going into a steep dive.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 21, 2026
"Show us how a real champ performs the Heimlich maneuver."
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026
The design combines the robustness needed for difficult, high-speed maneuvers with enough computational efficiency to work in real time.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026
Go-arounds are routine maneuvers pilots perform to redo landing attempts.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
On a brilliant August afternoon, retired architect Tyler Smith hops into his “beach car”— a dented and sandy RAV4 with 130,000 miles on it—and maneuvers onto a grassy farm road on Martha’s Vineyard’s south shore.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 3, 2026
She was absolutely free during these maneuvers, and would fly high into the air and hover over me like a leaf.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
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Eventually, the robot gripped the glass by the rim, maneuvered it into place and threw its hands in the air in triumph.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
“He maneuvered politically very well through the good and bad times.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026
On a rainy day in December, Ayala maneuvered his truck one final time through Mount Washington’s narrow streets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 16, 2026
Yet even though our two countries are inextricably bound together, and despite the existential nature of Canada’s reliance on the U.S. market, we have maneuvered ourselves into a self-defeating elbows-up mentality.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 20, 2026
With Angleton gone, the Operations Directorate maneuvered for new opportunities to penetrate deep into the heart of Brezhnev's secretive and rigid government.
From "Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia" by Marc Favreau
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Maeve, meanwhile, is maneuvering to expand her own power.
From Barron's ● Oct. 28, 2026
Hypersonic missiles fly at least five times the speed of sound and their velocity and maneuvering capabilities make detection more difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
In a deft bit of narrative maneuvering, Gerald’s voice breaking was written into the show; Jamil Walker Smith played the character for all five seasons and one movie.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2026
Even pro-AI residents have objected to the furtive maneuvering around data centers.
From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026
Nabila was lifting an iron pot from the stove and maneuvering it toward the sink.
From "Amal Unbound" by Aisha Saeed
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