parachute
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"Even with a reduction in parachute payments, I still feel that advantage will prove to be massively significant for those teams."
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"If you look at the numbers of teams that go back up or finish in the top places, there's a huge correlation between those clubs and the ones that are parachute payment clubs," McAnuff said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
"The amount of money paid in parachute payments will reduce and the amount of money going into the Championship will vastly increase," IFR chair David Kogan said.
From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026
Warner’s outgoing chief executive Zaslav will leave with a golden parachute valued at about $887 million, which includes cash, stock and options valued at more than $550 million, according to regulatory filings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Not content to show up under the canopy wearing her charity clothes, one particular bride-to-be had her fiancé barter cigarettes with a soldier for his old parachute, which had the perfect drape for a gown.
From "What the Night Sings" by Vesper Stamper
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Former Montana smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into rural terrain to contain wildfires — Sam Forstag is also hoping to go to D.C. as the state’s first Democratic member of Congress in 30 years.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
He said: "We've had Gayle King and Katy Perry come back safely to Earth with parachutes using fabric that was made right here in Devon."
From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2026
All three landed under good parachutes but two people collided with each other during the freefall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
The astronauts, who set a distance record, landed in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes a few minutes after 8 p.m.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026
Some stagger around mutely, staring at the remaining silver parachutes in their hands, as if they still might have something precious inside.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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He was parachuted into parliament in a by-election last month to take his place on the green benches and, weeks later, at the top of the greasy pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
Kenyon said he was a truly local candidate, not "parachuted in" like former MP Josh Simons.
From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026
Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
There is speculation that a compromise candidate could be parachuted into the process at the behest of the Council's powerful five permanent members.
From Barron's
“Anyone could be an enemy agent. Scouting the roads. Planning acts of sabotage. Did you hear that German troops parachuted into Holland disguised as nuns?”
From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin
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Commander Dave Lee, Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, spent the event parachuting into Pendennis Castle at the beginning of the eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
That tension between parachuting in the world’s biggest sporting event and the bureaucratic operations of a country is what makes this enterprise so complex.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026
Approach this as a collaborative effort, not as a sister parachuting into his personal and financial life all guns blazing.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
In one striking photo, a kneeling US pilot is confronted by a Kuwaiti local, moments after parachuting from his jet.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
She continued parachuting and competed with the Soviet National Aerobatics Team in England in 1970.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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