yaw
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
"The investigation found that, in the prevailing circumstances, the loss of yaw control was irrecoverable," it said in its final report on the crash.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023
Jackson is particularly proud of the clavicle, which can move forward and back as well as pitch, roll, and yaw.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
Retro-jets firing, a yaw and sway as the vessel settled onto the lunar surface.
From Nature ● Jun. 30, 2020
His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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"Understanding that complexity is essential if we want to reconstruct how infectious diseases shaped human history. Especially as treponemal disease like yaws is re-emerging due to the climate crisis."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Each causes a different disease: syphilis, yaws, and bejel.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 26, 2026
For example, we find examples of enslaved Africans who hailed from present-day Ghana describing inoculations for yaws, another contagious flesh disorder.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
In the trial, involving 56,000 people in Papua New Guinea, that regimen reduced yaws prevalence by 65%.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 12, 2022
The truck yaws like a ship at sea as Neumann One coaxes it over ruts.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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High gusts whipped the plane as it moved toward the runway, and it yawed too steeply.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2017
The game yawed back and forth from there.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017
Kirschvink also found a signal when the applied field yawed into the floor, as if the subject had looked up.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2016
"I think my parents' generation had little conscious idea what it believed," Frazier writes, and as a result the next cohort, his, "sort of pitched and yawed all over the place, spiritually."
From Time Magazine Archive
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Suddenly, a sloop yawed toward them and the moon filled its half sail with bright light.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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The slanting sides of the work appear as a yawing, rusted ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“We must stabilize the rudder so the giant ships . . . will move forward against the wind and waves without yawing, stalling or colliding.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
Instead, the Gemini-Agena began to gyrate violently through space, yawing and rolling at a rapidly increasing rate.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Carter, however, lacks even such a community of ideological backing in press or country; his yawing on issues has disaffected groups of supporters he could normally count upon.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Then he looked back, and to his great joy he perceived that the Lillian had gone off in a wild direction and was yawing all over the pond.
From "Stuart Little" by E.B. White
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