glide
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It’s easy to get lost in its layers of strings, to chase a cello’s lusty glide past innocent piano notes.
From Salon ● Oct. 23, 2026
As more workplace retirement plans try to make annuities part of the glide path of managed investments like target-date funds, a lot of education will be needed for workers as they approach retirement.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
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
He stamped to attract his attention and Kehaar sailed across to him with one beat of his wings and a long glide.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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One can practically taste the butter on their lips as Kirsten Dunst glides through ornate halls and indulges in raspberry-topped sweets.
From Salon ● Oct. 20, 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
The Australian attack was too often too wide and England's number four tucked into cuts, deft glides and cover drives.
From BBC ● Jan. 4, 2026
The train glides toward us on steel rails, its light flashing, its horn blaring.
From "Divergent" by Veronica Roth
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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
“You are all set to go,” a U.S. military officer radioed as the ship glided through the Strait of Hormuz on Monday and swung around the peninsula at the northern end of Oman.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 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
The women inmates spent most of their days sheltered under the shade of this tree while the boats glided up and down and up again on the other side of the prison gate.
From "A Wish in the Dark" by Christina Soontornvat
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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
Then, showing strength to keep his balance after being nudged by an opponent, he nicked the ball to his left with his right foot, gliding past a second defender.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 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
It’s gliding along the water, occasionally changing direction or ruffling its feathers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Besides gliding along as though he’s being transported on clouds, he also moves erratically, unsure of what to do next.
From "Saints and Misfits" by S.K. Ali
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