aloft
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Blume's speech was repeatedly interrupted by jeering and whistling, a person present at the meeting told AFP, and workers held aloft signs saying: "Don't balance your books with our jobs".
From Barron's ● Aug. 25, 2026
It takes more than three hours to drive from one end to the other, less with sirens flashing or aloft on police aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
And will the $500-million proposal to ferry fans by gondola from Union Station to Dodger Stadium remain aloft or crash and burn?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 1, 2026
That battle came at a cost, however, and the former world number one could not keep pace with the American-born 20-year-old, who held her arms aloft after wrapping up her first-ever win at Wimbledon.
From BBC ● Jun. 30, 2026
A light shone down on them from a lamp held aloft by an old man.
From "The Boy Who Met a Whale" by Nizrana Farook
Vocabulary lists containing aloft
A Long Walk to Water
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"Paul Revere's Ride" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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