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hydroplane

[hahy-druh-pleyn] / ˈhaɪ drəˌpleɪn /
NOUN
racing boat
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The nation’s only public museum dedicated solely to unlimited hydroplane racing, the nonprofit reaches beyond pure recreation to benefit children and wounded veterans, as well.

From Seattle Times Apr. 26, 2024

Mr Smith eventually walked away and handed the hydroplane to the Ruskin Museum.

From BBC Mar. 10, 2024

She describes being surprised in March the following year when she was asked by the museum's trustees to mediate with Mr Smith, who harboured ambitions to run the hydroplane across the globe.

From BBC Mar. 7, 2024

It was an unprecedented heat in unlimited hydroplane racing.

From Seattle Times Aug. 6, 2023

"And don't forget we're going up in the hydroplane tomorrow morning at nine o'clock."

From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Some participants drove runabouts that slice through the water, while others used hydroplanes, which glide over it.

From Seattle Times Apr. 27, 2024

His son, Brent Hall Jr., 12, is competing in the J-stock hydroplanes.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2023

Gunnar’s boat racing career started as so many do, building J-stock outboard hydroplanes at the museum with his grandfather and his sister.

From Seattle Times Aug. 4, 2023

These on-the-water spectators can see the hydroplanes racing right in front of them and air shows behind them, “so you’re really in the middle of the action,” Corning said.

From Seattle Times Aug. 3, 2023

But the hydroplanes pull it up and down, two pairs of them set fore and aft of the centre of gravity.

From The Dream Doctor by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve

A man in San Mateo County died Thursday after his vehicle hydroplaned and struck a tree, becoming the first storm-related death, according to Brian Ferguson, a spokesperson for the governor’s Office of Emergency Services.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 7, 2024

Solomon Mensah’s Hyundai Sonata hydroplaned as he slammed on the brakes to avoid a bus that had suddenly stopped ahead of him.

From Washington Post Jan. 23, 2023

During a downpour in Indiana, a Tesla Model 3 hydroplaned off the road and burst into flames.

From New York Times Jan. 17, 2023

The next batter, Andrew Vaughan, hit a groundball that hydroplaned to third baseman Eugenio Suarez, who misplayed it.

From Seattle Times Apr. 13, 2022

Four days before the hearing, they’d received the results from a study done by a forensic sciences firm in Salt Lake City that had asked the question: Was it likely that Reggie had hydroplaned?

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel

The agency also says Tesla made safety updates after the recall fix was sent out, including an attempt to reduce crashes caused by hydroplaning and to reduce collisions in high speed turn lanes.

From Seattle Times May 7, 2024

In Garfield County, Okla., severe weather destroyed some barns, felled trees and sent cars hydroplaning into ditches, but no one was injured, said Mike Honigsberg, the emergency management director for the county.

From New York Times May 6, 2024

A second storm-related death occurred when a teen driver’s car crashed after hydroplaning in the Solano County city of Fairfield, the Fairfield Police Department said.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 5, 2023

Authorities have determined a vehicle hydroplaning on the rain-slick highway caused the fatal accident.

From Washington Times Aug. 7, 2019

As to substance, she truly believed that the accident had been caused by the weather, hydroplaning.

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel




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