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glide

[glahyd] / glaɪd /


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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

Police said the buses were hit with a glide bomb.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 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

They watched the shape glide through the still air, passing so closely that Petey shivered.

From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby

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

It is layered under a sheer, billowed-sleeve floor-length windbreaker that glides on the runway.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 11, 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 water bomber glides just meters above the lake.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman

On Thursday afternoon, Shadow glided into the nest with KD1 not far behind, according to Friends of Big Bear Valley, a nonprofit that runs the livestream.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 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

Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

She pulled and pulled and pulled on the oars, and the rowboat glided through the waves.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown

She points to a stretch of water where three ducks are gliding by.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

This too is vaulted, the surfaces above gliding without interruption to the floor; the sense of spatial freedom is contagious.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026

An hour after the final whistle, the only sound heard at Ibrox was the hum of three lawnmowers gliding over the turf.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

“Often gliding by on her skateboard, with a smile that brightened her gorgeous blue eyes.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 24, 2026

The wild robot stayed low, gliding across the streets, darting around buildings, vanishing into the shadows.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown


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