parachute

The IFR report found that parachute payment clubs were more than four times more likely to be promoted.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Championship clubs not in receipt of parachute payments would pay around £45,000 per season, with League One clubs paying around £9,000, and League Two clubs £6,000.

From BBC ● Oct. 23, 2026

For relegation, this is the minimum value of being in the Premier League for the next season, minus the received parachute payment.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

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

“She was supposed to have been dropped by parachute and had to find her way to this pub.”

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

For nearly 25 years, GoPro cameras have gone underwater, glided with parachutes and slipped down ski slopes, allowing the adventurous to record images of their experiences.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026

They opened their parachutes, but they lost each other in the sky as they fell.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026

There is speculation that a compromise candidate could be parachuted into the process at the behest of the Council's powerful five permanent members.

From Barron's

In July 1945, toward the end of World War II, American soldiers parachuted into North Vietnam with orders to find and to help Ho Chi Minh.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

He was parachuting from planes six months later.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

But in a rare GQ profile ahead of his much-anticipated new film, “Digger,” Cruise’s zeal reaches heights even the intrepid actor might think twice about parachuting from.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

In 2026, it’s more like parachuting onto the roof.

From Barron's ● May 22, 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

Our ideas are silly—mailing ourselves to the lab as packages or parachuting in.

From "The Fourteenth Goldfish" by Jennifer L. Holm