fly
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Edman then advanced to third on a fly ball by Freeman.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
In praise of the secret supper club: By design, hidden restaurants tend to fly under the radar.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2026
Hypersonic missiles fly at least five times the speed of sound and their velocity and maneuvering capabilities make detection more difficult.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
She continued to have severe symptoms such as vomiting and diarrhea after drinking water in the office during 2018, prompting her parents to fly to the United States to take care of her, she wrote.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
“We’ll fly right up out of the water and smash to bits. We have to do something. Reverse boosters!”
From "Wolfie & Fly" by Cary Fagan
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The minuscule yet distinctly humanoid figure of a fairy flaps its wings as it flies into the ancient ruins of a bygone kingdom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2026
It took the company more than six weeks to clear the site, during which residents complained about a surge of rats, flies and sickness.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026
Yet the airline said the glitch didn’t apply to landing approaches it flies.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"It smells horrible," he said, explaining the fungus attracts flies which help spread its spores.
From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026
Yet Caesar glances past them like they’re flies.
From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes
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"The flyer said 'it's the toughest job in the world' and I thought yes it is, how can you help?'"
From BBC ● Oct. 4, 2026
He came back to Iowa to meet them again a year later, this time with a date, a venue and a flyer he could hand to them.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2026
You’ve made so much money in this long bull market, why not take a flyer here and there?
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 28, 2026
Round-trip flights from Atlanta to Boston cost him 180,000 of his frequent flyer points for three tickets.
From BBC ● Jun. 16, 2026
I have to look closely, but it’s a video of Stu Papadopolis using a black Sharpie on a Diverse Voices flyer.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
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“If you have an outfit on, but you don’t have cologne on or you don’t smell good, do you even have the flyest fit on? What’s the point,” he says.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2024
She told her fellow graduates and their families that they were “the flyest class ever to do it.”
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2023
Unlike her fellow Jersey teens who insist that superheroes aren’t cool, Kamala Khan, the heroine of Marvel’s upcoming Ms. Marvel series, thinks capes are the flyest thing in the world.
From The Verge ● Mar. 15, 2022
In denim overalls, a matching jacket and red cap, he cruises out on what looks like the concert platform of the flyest club in town.
From New York Times ● Apr. 8, 2021
Black treated her like she was the flyest girl alive.
From "When I Was the Greatest" by Jason Reynolds
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He then flew off into the unknown to figure out what having access to these memories means for him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
A swarm of five small drones was forced to turn back as three Black Hawk helicopters carrying senior Army officials flew into the same airspace, squandering a rare high-tech moment they had come to see.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026
On 20 September, he flew to Kisangani, a city with a population of about 1.5 million people on the Congo River, where he spent more than 10 days seeking medical care.
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026
Taiwanese fighter jets and two Chinook helicopters carrying giant Taiwan flags flew over the capital ahead of Lai's wide-ranging speech, which also covered housing pressure and the declining population.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
The drawer flew open so fast it came out of the runners completely.
From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler
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Bryce Teodosio flied out to Kyle Tucker in right field to end the game.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026
After Bryce Teodosio flied out for the second out of the inning, Yamamoto’s day was done.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2026
Will Smith pinch-hit for Michael Conforto at the last second — literally running out of the dugout with Conforto already digging in at the plate — but flied out to center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 3, 2025
Phillips then came up and in with a 95-mph sinker, and McNeil flied out to shallow center field, Nimmo holding at third.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2024
In the year 1825, when the great flood inundated whole Broek, men as well as cattle flied into the church, which lies so much higher and remained quite free of water.
From A Wanderer in Holland by Herbert Marshall, R.W.S.
Earhart had already successfully flown from California across South America, Africa and Asia in her Electra twin-engine plane when she arrived in Lae, Papua New Guinea, on 2 July 1937.
From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026
When the song outgrows the blue-ribbon crowd, they’re flown to Los Angeles for one nationally televised performance before falling out in a bit of dressing room melodrama.
From Salon ● Oct. 4, 2026
Earlier, the troops had flown a drone over the area to get a better look at the terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026
The hospital gets about 700 trauma patients each year and, of those, about 70 need to be flown to the mainland, CEO Tim Kielpinski told The Times in an interview.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026
It turned out that the blaze Nadya Studilina had spotted as they’d flown away from their target was the burning wreck of the other Po-2.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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The last time audiences saw Vision, the reconstructed synthezoid was flying off into the distance, and we didn’t know when we’d actually see him again.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026
Michalski used a slow shutter speed to photograph birds flying across a background of leafless birch trees.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration on Sunday issued a notice advising U.S. airlines to exercise caution when flying to or near Saudi Arabia.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2026
France, Canada and Germany are warning airlines that flying over all or large parts of Saudi Arabia is no longer safe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 11, 2026
Her blue eyes were as bright as a bluebird flying into the sun.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
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