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sky

[skahy] / skaɪ /


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"It will be darker and it will feel a little eerie but we're not going to have the sky go completely dark," she said.

From BBC Aug. 10, 2026

Einstein’s equations predicted what should happen, but someone still had to carry a telescope to the right place, wait beneath a darkened sky and look.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 10, 2026

Archer and Joby say their air taxis will bring the dream of flying cars to life with fast, lightweight aircraft that shuttle passengers over congested cities like an Uber in the sky.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

Stars and planets can emerge in the darkened sky, temperatures can fall, and winds may strengthen.

From Science Daily Aug. 10, 2026

Nobody dreamed that this tiny cloud would grow until it blocked out the sky.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Aug. 12 and 13: The Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak under exceptionally dark skies.

From Science Daily Aug. 5, 2026

Firefighters in Greece gained ground Tuesday against a wildfire burning for a fifth day on the outskirts of Athens, as easing winds allowed water-bombing aircraft back into the skies in force.

From Barron's Aug. 4, 2026

“Happy days are here again, the skies above are clear again,” is how that chipper Flapper-era song goes, and Citadel Securities appears to be singing it with a bullish call for stocks on Tuesday.

From MarketWatch Aug. 4, 2026

Scotland, Northern Ireland and western Britain will experience cloudier skies with outbreaks of rain as low pressure slowly moves across Ireland.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2026

Didn’t you try to kidnap Amelia Earhart out of the skies over the Pacific?

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

And there was joy in his face as he skied down the final descent, poles clutched in one hand, his other fist raised in triumph as he came through the line.

From Barron's Feb. 21, 2026

He travels at roughly 5:20-mile pace, uphill, with his feet strapped to carbon-fiber planks, after he’s skied at top speed for several minutes.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 16, 2026

If you’ve ever skied in the afternoon light, when it’s difficult to see any articulation in the slope, just white everywhere you look, you can understand how having those points of reference would be helpful.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2026

Australia needed 34 runs off the final two overs, but when Renshaw was caught for 65 after he skied the superb Muzarabani with eight balls remaining the game was effectively up.

From BBC Feb. 13, 2026

He saw as many hockey games as he could, was an active tennis player, skied, swam, and belonged to a Ping-Pong club in Manhattan.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

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 Howells, William Dean

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 Bolton, Sarah Knowles

The third was skyed, but he was admitted to membership.

From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore

In the Salon that year six thousand pictures were offered, and only two thousand accepted, and many of these were "skyed."

From Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 by Stanton, Elizabeth Cady

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 Neuhaus, Eugen

Rathnayake charged him a ball later and was caught skying a hideous swipe.

From BBC Feb. 22, 2026

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

This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height.

From Miss Mapp by Benson, E. F. (Edward Frederic)




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