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In a wide-ranging interview, Blanc urged the government to avoid policy "kite flying" ahead of Chancellor John Healey's first Budget on 28 October.

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2026

For me, the Multistrada is like a kite that grows more stable the faster the wind blows.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 29, 2026

Every summer since 2009, residents have gathered on this hill for a kite festival, held on land they say has been partly lost after being confiscated by settlers.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

Davies said fledglings would "glide like a kite" once they lost their fluff and got their primary feathers, and were shown the ropes by the older generation.

From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026

“I get to stay here today!” he yells, waving a kite he’s brought with him.

From "Shiloh" by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

It has been active at Gwenffrwd-Dinas for more than a century, first by supporting the Kite Committee in their efforts to protect red kites, and later by acquiring land to protect vulnerable habitats and wildlife.

From BBC ● Jul. 11, 2026

As brightly coloured kites climb above Burin, a Palestinian village in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, children race across a sun-baked hillside, watching their creations soar into the sky.

From Barron's ● Jul. 11, 2026

My wildlife checklist grew: red kites, black-winged kites, common buzzards, golden eagles, Spanish imperial eagles, a goshawk, three types of owl, two kinds of vulture.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

The vultures share their new home with a resident pair of black kites, who live alongside them just as they would in the wild.

From BBC ● May 8, 2026

She was standing on the edge of Baby Kochamma’s ornamental pond looking up at the kites wheeling in the sky.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

And then he saw Moss in single coverage and kited that beautiful touchdown pass to put the Redskins ahead again.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 22, 2012

When he pocketed the kited check after Cooper discovered it, I thought for a moment that he might take pity on his fellow partner.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2012

Construction costs for new public hospitals were also kited: metal drinking cups, for instance, were going to cost $50 each.

From Time Magazine Archive

He also claimed that he had kited the ratings of four programs, notably last February's CBS special An Evening with Carol Charining.*

From Time Magazine Archive

When the breeze blew, the lines would strain taut and some accident of this pull kited the bead and chest upright so that the figure seemed to peer across the brow of the mountain.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding

In the late nineteen-eighties, a few years before Moore discovered kiting, Don Montague started his own experiments in aerodynamics.

From The New Yorker ● Sep. 13, 2019

Kite clubs around Seattle and Whidbey Island can help you get involved in group events — or check our list of top kiting spots and go solo.

From Seattle Times ● May 4, 2016

In the early 1990’s, Bankers Trust Company suspected that Madoff and a friend of his named Norman Levy had been kiting checks.

From Forbes ● Sep. 26, 2014

But otherwise he consistently skirts the sublime, whether in the oceanic washes of Open Up Your Door, Tonight the Streets Are Ours' breezy hula, or hallucinogenic kiting tune Don't Stare At The Sun.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 15, 2013

Whenever a large mass seemed dangerously near the glass, they applied an apergetic shock to it and sent it kiting among its fellows.

From A journey in other worlds A romance of the future by John Jacob Astor