parachute

My travels had taken me to coastal areas in Connecticut and New York that are so privatized, you’d need a kayak or a parachute to make it onto a beach.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft touched down safely by parachute on July 26 at 5:27 a.m.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026

As military aircraft staged flyovers, members of the Army and Navy parachute teams jumped with giant U.S. flags over the mall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026

As it turned out, Belgium's mobility ministry did not allow the parachute drop -- which it says would have required suspending air traffic to and from the capital on a peak holiday weekend.

From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026

There was now an Air Transport Auxiliary ferry pool there, and Oakway had also become the biggest parachute training center in Britain.

From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein

Sam Forstag, a 31-year-old union leader and former smokejumper - a person who parachutes in to fight forest fires - just won the Democratic nomination for Montana's 1st congressional district, defeating a more establishment candidate.

From BBC ● Jul. 18, 2026

Former Montana smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into rural terrain to contain wildfires — Sam Forstag is also hoping to go to D.C. as the state’s first Democratic member of Congress in 30 years.

From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026

All three landed under good parachutes but two people collided with each other during the freefall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

The astronauts, who set a distance record, landed in the Pacific Ocean under parachutes a few minutes after 8 p.m.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 16, 2026

First, as I’ve believed, that the Capitol sent in that hovercraft, dropped the parachutes, and sacrificed its children’s lives, knowing the recently arrived rebels would go to their aid.

From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins

Walker, a 65-year-old London consultant, said she had yet to "make an impression" of the former mayor of Greater Manchester, who was parachuted into the top office by the Labour Party.

From Barron's ● Jul. 20, 2026

He was parachuted into parliament in a by-election last month to take his place on the green benches and, weeks later, at the top of the greasy pole.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

Glasgow was parachuted in to host the Games after the Australian state of Victoria dropped out, and was partly picked because so much infrastructure was already in place.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 2026

Kenyon said he was a truly local candidate, not "parachuted in" like former MP Josh Simons.

From BBC ● Jun. 8, 2026

“Anyone could be an enemy agent. Scouting the roads. Planning acts of sabotage. Did you hear that German troops parachuted into Holland disguised as nuns?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

But his fortunes have flipped: Keenan is now one of the most senior officials in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, parachuting into cases around the country.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 7, 2026

Approach this as a collaborative effort, not as a sister parachuting into his personal and financial life all guns blazing.

From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026

In one striking photo, a kneeling US pilot is confronted by a Kuwaiti local, moments after parachuting from his jet.

From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026

Rhodes joined the Army after high school and served for three years before being honorably discharged after a parachuting accident in 1986.

From Salon ● Dec. 30, 2025

But what I especially liked was that its founders were focused less on parachuting Ivy Leaguers into urban communities and more on finding and cultivating talent that was already there.

From "Becoming" by Michelle Obama