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glide

[glahyd] / glaɪd /


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However, this is considered a starting point for discussions, while there are also concerns about providing a suitable glide path down to the new number to enable teams to manage the impact on workforces.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

It’s easy to get lost in its layers of strings, to chase a cello’s lusty glide past innocent piano notes.

From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026

As more workplace retirement plans try to make annuities part of the glide path of managed investments like target-date funds, a lot of education will be needed for workers as they approach retirement.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026

That user experience is the glide path to continued AI adoption for Oracle and the market more broadly.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026

She managed to glide to earth and made a crash landing on a hillside, where local people greeted her armed with pitchforks, sticks, and rifles—they’d thought her falling plane might be a German fighter.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Maxine glides along, bathed in gratitude, making assured artistic decisions and certain that she is on the precipice of something that will change her life forever.

From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026

It glides by smoothly, and Ms. Mann’s lilting, melancholy songs are hypnotically lovely, but the characters’ anguish and psychological distress are only faintly sketched in.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

It is layered under a sheer, billowed-sleeve floor-length windbreaker that glides on the runway.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 2026

"The way he carries the ball and he glides past players. Often he offloads it at the right time. His vision and understanding of the game is phenomenal for someone so young."

From BBC ● Mar. 7, 2026

Lola and Luisa are at the karaoke machine singing “Dancing Queen” while Tadeo glides across the floor, his hips moving like they have oiled ball bearings.

From "The Tenth Mistake of Hank Hooperman" by Gennifer Choldenko

On Thursday afternoon, Shadow glided into the nest with KD1 not far behind, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit that runs the livestream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2026

South Africa took advantage of their extra man when the ball was moved left to Arendse and he glided over.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

As a flotilla of tall ships glided by behind him, he asked Americans to "reject the two-dimensional view of your fellow citizens and reject the two-dimensional view of your country."

From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026

“You are all set to go,” a U.S. military officer radioed as the ship glided through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and swung around the peninsula at the northern end of Oman.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026

Trolleys glided along suspension ropes headed to all the various levels.

From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton

Heng and reaching the banks of the Xiang River, the city’s “vast rice fields extend into lotus ponds with fish gliding in and out of the huge fanlike lotus leaves,” she adds.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Then, showing strength to keep his balance after being nudged by an opponent, he nicked the ball to his left with his right foot, gliding past a second defender.

From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026

Its Instagram channel shared reels of Roger Federer and other stars gliding across the court to popular 1990s Bollywood hits.

From BBC ● Jul. 28, 2026

“Often gliding by on her skateboard, with a smile that brightened her gorgeous blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

They swam by my mom like a fleet of small ships moving through the wreck, their sandy-brown skin gliding past her, caudal fins rippling like fabric through the water.

From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen


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