charter
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The Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority shared on X that the group left Loisaba to travel to Ewasonyiro on a Eurocopter, EC130 B4, operated by the charter service company Lady Lori Helicopters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026
The helicopter was operated by Lady Lori Kenya as a charter flight, and the cause of the crash hasn’t been determined.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 19, 2026
As a public service corporation, the BBC operates under a royal charter that explicitly bars it from entering into out-of-court financial settlements to make litigation disappear.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2026
Lighthouse Island is protected by the bird observatory and can only be accessed on an approved charter boat.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026
Ma asked this all the time, and I couldn't tell if she really had a hard time keeping up with the grading system of our charter school or if she was just being shady.
From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds
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Don’t forget that charters are public schools, open to everyone, with students accepted by lottery.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026
And anyone serious about increasing black and Hispanic enrollment might consider the record of high-performing charters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
The businesses tied to outdoor leisure that are expected to benefit include golf courses, outdoor entertainment venues and providers of fishing charters.
From MarketWatch ● Jul. 15, 2026
The district defends its approach in evaluating charters as consistent and fair and based on rules set out by the state and district policy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026
“We like renting charters a lot better,” I say quickly.
From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation, a congressionally chartered nonprofit corporation that is challenging the ballroom project, told the Supreme Court that the administration’s petition amounts to an attempt to “outrun judicial review.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Instead, the chartered bank would be able to issue and manage cryptocurrencies and digital assets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
The Joyjatra, chartered by a Singapore-based company, was marooned for nearly four months.
From Barron's ● Aug. 4, 2026
Tens of thousands of foreigners have left the country, including Nigerians, many of whom boarded specially chartered repatriation flights.
From BBC ● Jul. 31, 2026
Arrangements were also made for chartered planes and buses to go to the game at Texas Stadium in Irving.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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Vessels still are likely to encounter “port congestion,” as well as chartering and scheduling disruptions, said Sean Pribyl, a maritime attorney at Holland & Knight.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 18, 2026
The coalition he belongs to is chartering buses to bring protesters from across California for Monday's game and is hoping to have "40- to 50,000 people" around the stadium, he said.
From Barron's ● Jun. 14, 2026
The Houston-based company plans to close its Mesa Gateway Airport operation in Arizona, which served as its hub for chartering deportation flights, on Jan. 27.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 10, 2026
The team has to coordinate between two airline partners, chartering a Boeing 757 from Delta and a Boeing 737-800 from United, to handle travel parties of sometimes more than 100 in all.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 23, 2025
This originally had reference to the hiring of a ship; but when we hear of chartering a fly, or chartering a stretcher, there certainly arises an odd sense of the incongruous.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
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