glide
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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
"Jian and the other microraptors probably weren't capable of true, powered flight, but they could probably glide like a flying squirrel," says O'Connor.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 23, 2026
"This sport is indescribable. When you catch a wave, ride it, glide along it, that feeling can't be put into words," said 23-year-old Tahseen Abu Assi, who learned how to surf from his father.
From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026
“A consensus 80,000 print with unemployment at 4.3% says slow glide, not stall,” First Citizens Bank’s Phil Neuhart said in a note.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
Susie seemed to glide when she moved away.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
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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
From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place that glides serenely along beneath a beatific sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 26, 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
The chunky chalk glides smoothly over the concrete and feels good.
From "Zara’s Rules for Record-Breaking Fun" by Hena Khan
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Apple glided by expectations for its recent quarter and provided an even stronger outlook for the current period.
From Barron's ● May 1, 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
Then she glided through the backstage area and disappeared out of sight, just like her coach.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 18, 2026
At night, owls glided above the countryside, silently searching for furry little meals.
From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown
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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
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
This is the airspace Gilgeous-Alexander is gliding into at age 27.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 18, 2026
Those kind of scenes come once in never, where you feel like you’re letting the character drive, and you’re just gliding behind it.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
Even the air seemed lush and thick here, like velvet, swallowing up the click-click of ladies’ heels and the chatter of men in suits, so that they passed as silently as gliding ships.
From "Little Fires Everywhere" by Celeste Ng
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