parachute

In March 2023, a woman training to skydive solo flew her parachute into live power lines in Lake Elsinore.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2026

The gold plug was pulled, LIV scrambled to locate a new sugar daddy, and hailed savior BC Partners pulled its parachute this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Championship clubs not in receipt of parachute payments would pay around £45,000 per season, with League One clubs paying around £9,000, and League Two clubs £6,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

For relegation, this is the minimum value of being in the Premier League for the next season, minus the received parachute payment.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Everyone’s already up and watching the descent of a parachute to the beach.

From "Catching Fire" by Suzanne Collins

An inquiry is ongoing, according to the sheriff’s office, which said the Federal Aviation Administration will collect their parachutes for further investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Its parachutes and cushioning airbags had deployed as planned.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

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

During World War II, the DuPont company turned its scientific and manufacturing capacity to national service, producing munitions, nylon parachutes, Lucite airplane turrets, and many other products for the war effort.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 26, 2026

In the summer of 1944, at last the 46th Guards were equipped with parachutes.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

Rumors have persisted that a compromise candidate could be parachuted into the process at the behest of the powerful five veto-wielding Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.

From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026

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

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

British army medics parachuted onto another remote British Overseas Territory, the south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, to help a British resident with suspected hantavirus who disembarked there on 14 April.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

When Valentina was ejected from the ship, she parachuted several hundred miles northeast of the city of Karaganda.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson

But in a rare GQ profile ahead of his much-anticipated new film, “Digger,” Cruise’s zeal reaches heights even the intrepid actor might think twice about parachuting from.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 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

The skill and courage she showed in parachuting was admired, and she became an early favorite for the spaceflight.

From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson