altitude
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He simply hoped to find the strength to descend to an altitude with softer beds, more oxygen and higher temperatures.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 15, 2026
Ice can form on the outside of a plane while it’s cruising at high altitude.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 14, 2026
The astronauts flew behind the Moon's far side at an unprecedented altitude of some 4,000 miles, allowing for humans to see with their own eyes lunar regions that previously only robots had captured.
From Barron's • Apr. 10, 2026
But the justices were not inclined to let him remain at that altitude for long.
From Slate • Apr. 10, 2026
If death-defying, off-piste skiing at high altitude down near vertical slopes had a musical equivalent, bebop would be it.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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