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rescue

[res-kyoo] / ˈrɛs kju /




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They did not announce a helicopter rescue fee.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

Lowe wasn’t an obvious first choice to lead a populist rescue of the British establishment.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 16, 2026

Instead, Blythe chose honey over vinegar and launched a lobbying effort to convince state legislators and the governor that the town needed some kind of economic rescue.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 13, 2026

"We can inform you that the total number of evacuated passengers is 103 people," local search and rescue chief I Putu Sudayana said.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

If the Americans didn’t rescue them soon, they wouldn’t have long to live.

From "At Last She Stood" by Erin Entrada Kelly

Parts of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut were hit by flash flooding leading to water rescues, stranded motorists and half-marathon runners struggling through waist-deep flood waters.

From BBC Sep. 14, 2026

The rescues have mostly been of swimmers not properly judging the strong currents.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 8, 2026

The BBC's South Asia correspondent Azadeh Moshiri, reporting from Nepal, describes how the rescues have given renewed hope to some families still waiting to find out what happened to missing relatives.

From BBC Sep. 4, 2026

India, which has extensive experience in such rescues, has sent an 11-person specialised team.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

The idea was that people seal themselves in the pop- tent, then the rest of the crew drives to wherever they are in the other rover and rescues them.

From "The Martian" by Andy Weir

The rescued bears - Bara, Rumi, Saebit, Yonggi and Huimang - are enjoying a new reserve at the park created specifically for them.

From BBC Sep. 16, 2026

No one seemed to enjoy having a team more than Ballmer, the former Microsoft boss who was hailed as a savior when he rescued the Donald Sterling-toxified franchise in 2014.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 15, 2026

Last month, a fire on board a ferry killed one person and left five others missing while 211 were rescued in the Lombok Strait off Indonesia's Bali island.

From Barron's Sep. 13, 2026

The pair managed to get out of the plane and to shallow water where a Wausau Fire Department airboat rescued them about 15 minutes later, at 21:05 local time, according to the sheriff's office.

From BBC Sep. 13, 2026

I have Emery Webber, who rescued me from having to eat lunch by myself on the first day of freshman year.

From "Starfish" by Akemi Dawn Bowman

"I think the focus should obviously be on rescuing as many people as possible from this disaster", he added, hoping that his parents will be found safe and sound.

From Barron's Aug. 29, 2026

I alerted the organizations involved in rescuing monuments threatened by war.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 27, 2026

Whether Mr. Ueda or Ms. Takaichi—or preferably both in concert—can navigate out of this thicket will determine whether the yen needs rescuing again soon.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

London Fire Brigade said it dealt with more than 1,300 incidents over the weekend - including grass fires, property fires and rescuing a person from the Thames.

From BBC Jul. 27, 2026

The only way of rescuing the theory in the light of the new evidence would have been to say that all the navigators were wrong: America was not where they thought it was.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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