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fly

[flahy] / flaɪ /






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Skubal escaped the inning by getting Olson to chase an outside fastball and fly out to left field.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

"As for when they will fly back, we will coordinate further with the US side."

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Signs that a bat may be rabid include the creature being active during the day, or if it is found on the ground or unable to fly.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026

“I’d ask them, ‘Do you want to fly in a plane with a pilot who cheated his way through flight school?’”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

A fly comes in and buzzes around for a while before it finds its way back out.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

Mahan still flies to China and Russia, two of Iran’s biggest partners.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 26, 2026

As the days went on, the smell worsened, drawing swarms of flies and rats to the neighborhood, where they pestered and sickened locals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 23, 2026

Carney flies to Liverpool later this week, after leaving the European Parliament, for his first face-to-face meeting with new UK prime minister, Andy Burnham.

From BBC ● Sep. 15, 2026

The fossil record includes spiders, flies, wasps or beetles, insect larvae, crustaceans, vertebrates such as fish and amphibians, and a remarkable diversity of plants.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 15, 2026

The button pops off and flies across the room.

From "Keeping Pace" by Laurie Morrison

He was described as a very experienced wingsuit flyer - which is a type of skydiving.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

Recently, I watched someone stop on the street to read a flyer for a Repair Fair.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

Brentford are off to an absolute flyer - smashing Tottenham then hitting Birmingham for six or seven.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 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

Master scribbled a note on the back of a flyer and left it on the table.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“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

Bamberger’s is one of the flyest department stores in downtown Newark.

From "Like Vanessa" by Tami Charles

Marine Corps helicopter pilot who flew Marine One in support of a former U.S. president.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

Flight 1073’s new pilots flew the damaged aircraft for more than an hour.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

As the flydubai Boeing 737 flew over northwestern Saudi Arabia en route from Dubai to Tel Aviv, the co-pilot suddenly attacked his captain, according to Israeli officials.

From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026

It’s possible I flew through the Atlanta airport on the way to Florida, but I do not have a recollection of going to Atlanta.

From Slate ● Sep. 29, 2026

The new sled flew like a frightened bird.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell

Bryce Teodosio flied out to Kyle Tucker in right field to end the game.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 16, 2026

That cut the Guardians’ lead to three runs before Will Smith flied out to deep center to end it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 1, 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

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

I flied on a broomstick my own self, and I tumbled off.

From Little Grandmother by Sophie May

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

The captain and the co-pilot are in the U.A.E. after being flown there Thursday from Saudi Arabia, where the plane made an emergency landing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The mostly Israeli passengers on the flight have been flown back to Israel on a replacement plane.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Satoko Nagakubo has flown from Tokyo for the festival.

From BBC ● Oct. 1, 2026

If she hadn’t raised the plane’s nose at the last second, she’d have flown straight into the ground.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

FlyDubai hired Hammami after Oman banned him from flying on its state-owned airline, after picking up signs he had adopted radical ideological views, people familiar with the matter said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Cong says it's "meaningful" to be flying the flag for women's MMA after a period of under representation in the UFC, and is excited for the opportunities her success could create in China.

From BBC ● Oct. 3, 2026

While vast clouds of flying bugs might not be everyone's cup of tea, scientists have been delighted to find that the Bogongs are back.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Israeli airlines flying to Dubai are known to follow stricter security protocols than their foreign counterparts on the same route.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

The guinea pigs across the hilltops, the fairies in the grove, and flying on a real shooting star.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova




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