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parachute

[par-uh-shoot] / ˈpær əˌʃut /




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As military aircraft staged flyovers, members of the Army and Navy parachute teams jumped with giant U.S. flags over the mall.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 4, 2026

One proxy firm, Institutional Shareholder Services, even labeled Zaslav’s package a “golden parachute proposal.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 29, 2026

Original plans by US envoy Bill White involved fighter jet flyovers and a parachute drop for the independence anniversary event in the Cinquantenaire Park, in the heart of the city's European district.

From Barron's Jun. 26, 2026

Tattered sweaters, linen T-shirts, parachute shirts and “bondage suits” are printed with slogans that read “Only anarchists are pretty” and “Anarchist punk gang.”

From Los Angeles Times May 18, 2026

A parachute comes down with a pile of bite-sized square-shaped rolls.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

Former Montana smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into rural terrain to contain wildfires — Sam Forstag is also hoping to go to D.C. as the state’s first Democratic member of Congress in 30 years.

From Salon Jul. 9, 2026

All three landed under good parachutes but two people collided with each other during the freefall.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 2, 2026

When the main parachutes came out, he added, “It was glorious.”

From The Wall Street Journal Apr. 16, 2026

The mission's moment of maximum jeopardy had passed, and soon the spacecraft's red-and-white parachutes opened and sent the capsule sailing majestically through the sky.

From BBC Apr. 11, 2026

And they were still so close to German territory that they were afraid they’d be blown back over the front lines if they tried to use their parachutes.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

He said this includes pharmaceuticals which need to be manufactured in micro-gravity conditions before being parachuted to Earth.

From BBC Jun. 17, 2026

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times May 28, 2026

British paratroopers and medics parachuted onto the island to deliver urgent medical supplies for him.

From Barron's May 11, 2026

A team of six British Army paratroopers and two medical clinicians have parachuted onto the island to help its two-person medical team provide care to the man and the island's other residents.

From BBC May 10, 2026

When Valentina was ejected from the ship, she parachuted several hundred miles northeast of the city of Karaganda.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

That tension between parachuting in the world’s biggest sporting event and the bureaucratic operations of a country is what makes this enterprise so complex.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 11, 2026

In 2026, it’s more like parachuting onto the roof.

From Barron's May 22, 2026

Approach this as a collaborative effort, not as a sister parachuting into his personal and financial life all guns blazing.

From MarketWatch Mar. 23, 2026

Rhodes joined the Army after high school and served for three years before being honorably discharged after a parachuting accident in 1986.

From Salon Dec. 30, 2025

And first, Valentina would have to take a parachuting course herself, which she did during that bitter wartime winter.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein




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