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yaw

[yaw] / jɔ /
VERB
temporarily swerve off coarse
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VERB
swerve
Synonyms
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STRONG


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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025

"The investigation found that, in the prevailing circumstances, the loss of yaw control was irrecoverable," it said in its final report on the crash.

From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023

Jackson is particularly proud of the clavicle, which can move forward and back as well as pitch, roll, and yaw.

From The Verge ● May 4, 2022

Retro-jets firing, a yaw and sway as the vessel settled onto the lunar surface.

From Nature ● Jun. 30, 2020

His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

Instead, the evidence suggests the children were likely affected by a nonvenereal treponemal disease such as yaws.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026

Each causes a different disease: syphilis, yaws, and bejel.

From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026

For example, we find examples of enslaved Africans who hailed from present-day Ghana describing inoculations for yaws, another contagious flesh disorder.

From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023

In 2012, Oriol Mitjà, a Spanish doctor and scientist, working in remote Papua New Guinea, showed that a single dose of a cheap antibiotic, azithromycin, can cure yaws.

From Science Magazine ● Jul. 20, 2018

The truck yaws like a ship at sea as Neumann One coaxes it over ruts.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

High gusts whipped the plane as it moved toward the runway, and it yawed too steeply.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2017

The game yawed back and forth from there.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017

Kirschvink also found a signal when the applied field yawed into the floor, as if the subject had looked up.

From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2016

As I yawed down what I hoped was the channel, I avoided looking at the depth sounder as its report was discouraging.

From Time Magazine Archive

Suddenly, a sloop yawed toward them and the moon filled its half sail with bright light.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

The slanting sides of the work appear as a yawing, rusted ship.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We must stabilize the rudder so the giant ships . . . will move forward against the wind and waves without yawing, stalling or colliding.”

From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021

Its heart is a subtle instrument that senses every force that acts on the flying missile, the enormous force of the rocket thrust and the delicate forces of crosswinds and yawing motions.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last month, after a great deal of bucking and yawing, the two interested parties in shortwave affairs got in harness together on a working program.

From Time Magazine Archive

The gulls glided back around, all together, all yawing their wings to the drafts that brought them low to the water.

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt


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