parachute
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While parachute payments provide something of a cushion, relegation from the Premier League is still a considerable financial hit.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
To get cleared, I have to pass a pre-flight instruction class how to use a parachute and an explanation what to do with the barf bag.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 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
She tried not to think of the extra weight she carried—the parachute pack and the inflatable life jacket over her clothing.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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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
Ellis herself—portrayed by the much-honored English actress Sharon D. Clarke—is a specialist of sorts, a crack investigator who parachutes into under-resourced locales to help with cases deemed otherwise unsolvable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 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 mission's moment of maximum jeopardy had passed, and soon the spacecraft's red-and-white parachutes opened and sent the capsule sailing majestically through the sky.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
Coin thought the parachutes would expedite the war.
From "Mockingjay" by Suzanne Collins
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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
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
British army medics parachuted onto another remote British Overseas Territory, the south Atlantic island of Tristan da Cunha, to help a British resident with suspected hantavirus who disembarked there on 14 April.
From BBC ● May 13, 2026
There is speculation that a compromise candidate could be parachuted into the process at the behest of the powerful five veto-wielding Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
From Barron's
The passenger, in a helmet and bright orange flight suit, had parachuted down near a village in the Ural Mountains.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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Commander Dave Lee, Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, spent the event parachuting into Pendennis Castle at the beginning of the eclipse.
From BBC ● Aug. 15, 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
A second video verified by Storyful showed people parachuting to the ground nearby.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 2, 2026
She continued parachuting and competed with the Soviet National Aerobatics Team in England in 1970.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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