rope
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Today, professional operators have developed guided, client-friendly methods to experience the landscape, including harnessed rope swings off cliffs, walking highlines across canyons, and navigating cliff-top terrain in specialized 4×4 jeeps.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
When was the last time you skipped rope?
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The exercises also involved helicopters from which personnel descended by rope.
From Barron's ● Aug. 13, 2026
"In those years, I really think it was taken to a limit where in the end, the rope broke."
From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026
When we got the rope centered, our problems began.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
"After descending through the opening using ropes and calling out to those inside, no response was received," the prime minister's office said in a statement.
From Barron's ● Aug. 30, 2026
Countless online courses now promise to teach the ropes of content creation, while Arizona State University will be offering a new content creation major.
From Salon ● Aug. 30, 2026
A flurry in the eighth backed Hrgovic on to the ropes and had him in trouble, but Itauma was grimacing between exchanges and looking increasingly spent.
From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026
How Wall Street sussed out that the hedge fund Situational Awareness was on the ropes.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 18, 2026
The ice and the ropes of light melt away.
From "The Manifestor Prophecy" by Angie Thomas
That investigation spanned seven years and roped in more than a dozen other automakers, identifying over 4,000 reports of sunroof fractures.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026
Three of the group - Bex, Ali Wright and Amanda Jean - work with local radio station Now Ayrshire, which is why they all ended up roped into this escapade.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Against left-hander Matthew Boyd, Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages hit back-to-back singles, and Tommy Edman roped a three-run homer to left.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 4, 2026
In “Rooster,” Steve Carell plays Greg Russo, a divorced bestselling author roped into accepting a writer’s residency at the university where his daughter teaches.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 12, 2026
He wanted to show them the photos of Kainene and the roped pot, but then he thought better of it.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Chaplin is a master sentimentalist, but not averse to occasional sharpness: The moment the film’s boatload of immigrants sees the Statue of Liberty is followed by an official roping them off like cattle.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 24, 2026
The job of refining techniques of riding and roping — while modifying gear and apparel — largely fell to the resourceful vaqueros, from the Spanish word vaca for cow.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 23, 2026
But she will not be roping in her mum, Liz, to help out despite the former world 10,000m champion being desperate to step in and lend a hand.
From BBC ● Jan. 24, 2026
Beyond roping off a large section of the store for e-commerce fulfillment, the company plans separate access sites for in-store shoppers, delivery drivers, and trucks, according to the proposal.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
When three days is gone past, we’ll have another roping and discuss all there is to do.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
