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Recent Examples of gondola
Touring the Sistine Chapel or riding a gondola through Venice?
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Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Other hotels cater to pets as well, and they are even allowed on some gondolas.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2024
Other projects included a new two-stage gondola, moving a beginner area out of the base area to a location higher on the mountain in order to relieve base area congestion, improving the base area with a new food and drink hall, and a skating rink.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024
While most ski down the mountain when ready to leave, my friends and I took a gondola, which was the easier and wiser choice after a few margaritas.
—Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
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Madeline Fitzgerald, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
Other hotels cater to pets as well, and they are even allowed on some gondolas.
—The Know, The Denver Post, 14 Oct. 2024
Other projects included a new two-stage gondola, moving a beginner area out of the base area to a location higher on the mountain in order to relieve base area congestion, improving the base area with a new food and drink hall, and a skating rink.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 22 Dec. 2024
While most ski down the mountain when ready to leave, my friends and I took a gondola, which was the easier and wiser choice after a few margaritas.
—Madison Flager, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
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Operators of tug, ferry and tour boats in and around New York City immediately responded to quickly evacuate 500,000 people in the area from danger.—
James Kendra,
The Conversation,
20 Jan. 2025
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So Martinez and her husband hunkered down for six hours in the ferry parking lot, waiting for the storm to pass while hashing out a plan to sell their 1920s home in California, move across the country with their two daughters, and modernize the 1807 house before the next school year—no small feat.—
Jennifer Fernandez,
Architectural Digest,
20 Jan. 2025
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Philip Glass had a moving company and did plumbing and drove taxis in his downtime between compositions.—
Rebecca Alter,
Vulture,
17 Jan. 2025
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Tourists in the historic city of Paro increasingly complain of price gouging by local taxi drivers.—
By Charlie Campbell/Gelephu, Bhutan,
TIME,
16 Jan. 2025
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.—
Jeff Martini,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2011
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2024
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Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .—
Ryan Chan,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
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Blue Origin will attempt to land New Glenn’s first stage booster on a barge in the ocean 10 minutes after liftoff while its second stage heads into orbit.—
William Gavin,
Quartz,
13 Jan. 2025
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This month, construction crews on barges, drills, cranes, tugs and service vessels will begin drilling to collect soil samples and map subsurface waterways.—
Todd Karpovich,
Baltimore Sun,
8 Jan. 2025
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Known for providing high-quality construction services across multiple sectors, including heavy highway and railroad repair, as well as bridge and marine construction, Mohawk Northeast is powered by a robust fleet of machinery that includes cranes and tugboats.—
Benedict Cosgrove,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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The plan for the historic ship is for it to be towed by tugboats to Mobile, Alabama where it will be broken down to serve as an artificial reef.—
Mike Snider,
USA TODAY,
14 Nov. 2024
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The water taxi and helicopter tours spend around two to three-and-a-half hours on the lagoon, respectively, and typically run from May through September.—
Shoshi Parks,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Jan. 2025
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Upon arrival, travelers heading to Freetown will book a scenic 35-minute water taxi ride across the Sierra Leone River.—
Lauren Mowery,
Forbes,
4 Jan. 2025
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Offerings include arts and crafts, caber toss, the haggis hurl, sheaf toss and tug of war in a non-competitive environment.—
Patrick Connolly,
Orlando Sentinel,
17 Jan. 2025
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Investors expect volatility in the flagship cryptocurrency this year, with bitcoin stuck in a tug of war between investors’ concerns about rising inflation under Trump and their optimism over the his pro-crypto leadership.—
Tanaya Macheel,
CNBC,
16 Jan. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 30 Jan. 2025.
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