Recent Examples on the WebIn the event of a conflict or military contingency with China, U.S. allies would come under heavy pressure from Beijing to limit the United States’ access, basing, and overflight rights.—Susannah Patton, Foreign Affairs, 13 Sep. 2024 Truly high-end adventures, such as an overflight of the Briksdal Glacier, are, predictably, expensive, but most of my tours were priced competitively compared to third-party options.—Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024 But in a sign of Turkey’s diminished clout in Washington, this request also met with bipartisan opposition in the U.S. Congress after Turkey stalled on Sweden’s NATO membership and repeatedly conducted military overflights of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.—Henri J. Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2023 The overflight of the carrier strike group will raise questions in Congress, where Republicans seized on the spy balloon issue to accuse President Biden of failing to deter Chinese espionage.—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023 See all Example Sentences for overflight
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