glide
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“While the drones are a problem, by far the biggest problem for Ukraine is glide bombs,” said Justin Bronk, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk watches a Greenland shark glide slowly through the dark waters of the Arctic on her computer screen.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026
Tech scion David Ellison for months projected confidence that his blockbuster Hollywood merger was on a glide path to completion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026
"This sport is indescribable. When you catch a wave, ride it, glide along it, that feeling can't be put into words," said 23-year-old Tahseen Abu Assi, who learned how to surf from his father.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
Immediately the kestrel came lower in an oblique glide, closed its wings and dropped.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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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
While the narrative glides along the original contours—Johnny grows warmer to Linda and reveals an unworshipful, even cavalier attitude to money-making that stirs trouble—Mr. Greenberg has rewritten virtually every line of the play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 2026
Nothing seems to ruffle his fur as this political veteran glides from crisis to crisis with feline calm, and the lick of a paw.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
One whispers, “I don’t think we can cut it, though,” once she glides out of the room.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 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
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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
In a sparkly gold dress, the 20-year-old floated above the pressure, bopped along to the music of Donna Summer and glided her way to stardom—and the top of the podium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
The gleaming pink boiled-sweet boat glided up to the riverbank.
From "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" by Roald Dahl
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An hour after the final whistle, the only sound heard at Ibrox was the hum of three lawnmowers gliding over the turf.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026
As Weber explains, "they send the newly formed nuclei of their daughter cells gliding across long distances to repopulate the damaged area of the brain and knit the astrocyte network back together."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
This is the airspace Gilgeous-Alexander is gliding into at age 27.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
She wore a black dress with a scoop back and wide shoulders so her long neck had the appearance of a swan gliding on a lake.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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