glide
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That user experience is the glide path to continued AI adoption for Oracle and the market more broadly.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
The countless repetitions give you the most beautiful art form where swans glide, fairies dance and every year a giant nutcracker appears.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 31, 2026
Every year, tens of thousands of birds glide over the rusting remains of one of the Mediterranean's largest saltworks, to rest in the rare paradise it left behind.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
After reentering the atmosphere, it would glide on wings before being captured in mid air by a large subsonic aircraft.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 11, 2026
Immediately the kestrel came lower in an oblique glide, closed its wings and dropped.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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Think of Eberechi Eze in the way he effortlessly glides across the pitch with the ball.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Maxine glides along, bathed in gratitude, making assured artistic decisions and certain that she is on the precipice of something that will change her life forever.
From Salon ● Jun. 29, 2026
Where her music was once jittery, now it glides.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
Nothing seems to ruffle his fur as this political veteran glides from crisis to crisis with feline calm, and the lick of a paw.
From Barron's ● Feb. 15, 2026
Now he stands up, stealthily creeps across the floor, hesitates a moment and then glides towards the door.
From "All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel" by Erich Maria Remarque
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Manzambi glided past powerless Fenerbahce tackles, Ibraham Mbaye found space to exploit - even if he needs to improve - and Jackson was clinical.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
As a flotilla of tall ships glided by behind him, he asked Americans to "reject the two-dimensional view of your fellow citizens and reject the two-dimensional view of your country."
From Barron's ● Jul. 4, 2026
Their analysis of fossil jaws suggests giant octopuses glided through the oceans equipped with the ability to chew on the hard shells and skeletons of large fish and marine reptiles.
From BBC ● Apr. 23, 2026
Kudos to Styles who managed to mostly keep his composure as Hernández glided around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
Athena well-pleased left Olympus and glided down to Ithaca.
From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton
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Other spots show the former WWE champion delivering similar messages while hang gliding with a raccoon and pummeling a large rock into a sculpture of his face.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026
She points to a stretch of water where three ducks are gliding by.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
Then they spend hours gliding downstream past scenery that might as well be a Northern California highlight reel: vineyards, redwood forests and eventually a beach scene full of driftwood and sea stacks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
As Weber explains, "they send the newly formed nuclei of their daughter cells gliding across long distances to repopulate the damaged area of the brain and knit the astrocyte network back together."
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
One of the shadows ahead of them separated from the wall and began gliding toward them.
From "The School for Whatnots" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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