sky
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Despite the Army’s earlier protestations, the sky didn’t fall when the court was allowed to get involved.
From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026
The black holes themselves, however, remain too close together in the sky to be individually resolved.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 18, 2026
Then again, it’s tough to compete for attention when Musk’s rocket vapor-cloud filled the air and the Roadster did flips through the sky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2026
Taking in villages and towns surrounding Exmoor National Park, the event offers walks, talks and shows - putting the dark, clear, night sky into full focus.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2026
“No!” he barked to the sky, jabbing a claw upward.
From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman
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Typically in autumn the jet stream would be a regular visitor to the skies above the UK, steering wet and windy weather towards us.
From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2026
Her director, who seems preoccupied with grass and trees and skies at the expense of people, has made a film almost completely bereft of wit, which is like a Star Wars movie without laser guns.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
In the Pacific tourist resort of Puerto Vallarta, the skies were cloudy on Saturday morning but the sea was still relatively calm.
From Barron's ● Oct. 10, 2026
But any comparison of the challenge of defending Britain's skies with Israel's, about 10% the size of the UK, is naive.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026
The pain that had stopped it from hunting, wheeling through the skies above its cloudy kingdom.
From "Rowan of Rin" by Emily Rodda
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There was a comedy moment when Arshdeep Singh skied Tongue for what seemed a simple catch, only for the ball to by left to each other by Curran and Buttler.
From BBC ● Jul. 7, 2026
Only once Germany’s Jonathan Tah skied his shot and Paraguay’s Jose Canale powered one past Manuel Neuer did the upset officially enter the history books.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 30, 2026
With 98 runs needed from 37 balls, Jahzara Claxton skied a top edge and England's wicketkeeper Jones called for the catch.
From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2026
The next inning, Max Muncy skied a solo homer to right.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2026
“Lianne’s skied some of the best places in the world,” he said.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
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Making secure her place; Guiding her surely as the worlds through space Do laws sidereal; edicts, thunder-lit, Of skyed eternity, in splendor borne On planetary wings of night and morn.
From An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three by Madison Julius Cawein
The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.
From Twelve Men by Theodore Dreiser
In these fancies Cornelia even had them come to New York, to see her picture in position; it was not on the line, of course, and yet it was not skyed.
From The Coast of Bohemia by William Dean Howells
Frederic M. DuMond's "Sea Carvings" in the corner, and Nahl's decorative composition attract, each in its way, while in another corner a badly skyed portrait by Hinkle is scarcely given a chance.
From The Galleries of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus
The picture was received, but was "skyed," that is, placed so high that nobody could well see it.
From Lives of Girls Who Became Famous by Sarah Knowles Bolton
Once Norway winger Reiten dispatched the first penalty just prior to the half-hour mark, Chelsea were always in command although Aurora Galli wasted a decent chance to equalise, skying over from Rikke Madsen's cross.
From BBC ● Feb. 4, 2024
Mexico pushed and pushed, skying one over the goal early in stoppage time among other attempts that caused sighs, and then at five minutes beyond 90 the whole thing collapsed with a rare Saudi counterattack.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 30, 2022
Redaelli was an offensive lynchpin beyond her years in Palisades’ 25-17, 25-18, 5-25, 27-25, 15-12 rivalry win over Venice on Thursday night, raining shots from all angles, skying from the back for the match-clinching kill.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 9, 2022
He had 105 yards on six catches, with two receiving touchdowns, by either gliding uncovered up the seams or skying over defenders.
From New York Times ● Dec. 5, 2021
He barked a warning, and the sharp signal went around from hillock to hillock; and in half a minute all the big, babyish eyes were fixed upon the approach of the skying marauder.
From Children of the Wild by Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts
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