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Recent Examples of glider
Its contract with Lotus was for 2,500 rolling gliders, and not all of those ended up as saleable products.
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Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
The warmup started out like a high school sports practice—high knees, butt kicks, lunges—before moving into a series of humbling strength exercises, like scooting across the floor in plank position with my feet on a glider disc.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
There’s a Spider-Ham snowman, Electro’s Christmas tree, Gwen Stacy’s drum kit, and a Green Goblin glider that resembles Santa’s sleigh.
—Clint Davis, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
Nobody has fallen from the glider in its nearly 50-year history.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 10 July 2024
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Jeremy Korzeniewski, Robb Report, 23 Sep. 2024
The warmup started out like a high school sports practice—high knees, butt kicks, lunges—before moving into a series of humbling strength exercises, like scooting across the floor in plank position with my feet on a glider disc.
—Jamie Ducharme, TIME, 10 Sep. 2024
There’s a Spider-Ham snowman, Electro’s Christmas tree, Gwen Stacy’s drum kit, and a Green Goblin glider that resembles Santa’s sleigh.
—Clint Davis, Peoplemag, 3 Sep. 2024
Nobody has fallen from the glider in its nearly 50-year history.
—Jason Clayworth, Axios, 10 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glider
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The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023
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Keen interest centered on the performance of a Nelson Dragonfly sailplane, entered in the meet by Gus Briegleb, of Van Nuys.San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2022
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Every Sunday from May through October, the Flying Circus features daring aerobatic stunts in vintage biplanes, transporting spectators back to the golden age of aviation.Kinsey Gidick, Southern Living, 16 Oct. 2024
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You will neither get gunned down by Snoopy in a biplane, nor will a helicopter land on the freeway to give your parents a ticket.Logan Carter / Jalopnik, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2024
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Most guests float in on vintage Turtle Air seaplanes to the legendary refuge in the heart of the Yasawas.David Hochman, Forbes, 20 Oct. 2024
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Dry Tortugas National Park, located 70 miles west of Key West in Florida and only reachable by boat or seaplane, was the third least visited national park in the contiguous U.S. NPS parks in Michigan The National Park Service (NPS) manages many different types of parks.Kristi Tanner, Detroit Free Press, 9 Sep. 2024
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.Richard Selcer, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.Jamie Turner, cleveland.com, 16 July 2019
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Towards the nose, there's a front triplane wing, and a large S-duct with adaptive flaps built into the carbon fiber front hood to help things along.New Atlas, New Atlas, 18 Oct. 2024
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Exhibits include fi rearms, artillery pieces, uniforms, armored vehicles, and even a Fokker triplane.Smithsonian, Smithsonian, 26 May 2017
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“Glider.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glider. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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