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glide

[glahyd] / glaɪd /


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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

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

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

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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