glide
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Sinner, meanwhile, will glide back slowly to Cincy, taking time off following an impressive victory at Wimbledon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 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
Robotaxis weave through traffic alongside ordinary cars, while autonomous delivery vans glide along the inside lane as they carry packages to collection points.
From BBC ● Jul. 6, 2026
Security bots glide around the floor, looking like ladies with mechanical jaws and long-nosed masks and black parasols.
From "Warcross" by Marie Lu
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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
While the narrative glides along the original contours—Johnny grows warmer to Linda and reveals an unworshipful, even cavalier attitude to money-making that stirs trouble—Mr. Greenberg has rewritten virtually every line of the play.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 19, 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
From the first moments she glides across the frame, Paltrow is pulling focus.
From Salon ● Dec. 22, 2025
He releases the wheel and the ship glides to a smooth stop in midair.
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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After Wales centre Eddie James denied Nathan Hughes a try, Tandy's side bounced back as Morgan-Williams glided over before Munster centre Nankivell hit back before the Barbarians.
From BBC ● Jun. 27, 2026
Apple glided by expectations for its recent quarter and provided an even stronger outlook for the current period.
From Barron's ● May 1, 2026
Kudos to Styles who managed to mostly keep his composure as Hernández glided around him.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 15, 2026
In a sparkly gold dress, the 20-year-old floated above the pressure, bopped along to the music of Donna Summer and glided her way to stardom—and the top of the podium.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 23, 2026
I whispered, as I glided past her door.
From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
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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
Increasingly, the journey starts with a squat silver floor robot gliding beneath a storage rack, lifting a shelf and carrying it across a warehouse to a waiting worker.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
It is not normal that he is gliding and sliding and then charging around the baseline, running to the net to meet drop shots, and still sending down second serves at 122 mph.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
At 10:30 a.m., the bell rings through the halls of William F. Prisk Elementary School in Long Beach, sending students racing onto the playground, throwing basketballs, doing cartwheels, gliding down slides.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 18, 2026
An image jumps out, of sailboats gliding along the bay on a pretty day.
From "The House That Lou Built" by Mae Respicio
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