slingshot
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It has an eight-year cruise with flybys of Earth and Venus to slingshot it to Jupiter.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 3, 2026
The opportunity to slingshot yourself onto the radar of upper management will be limited only by curiosity.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 21, 2026
A teenager draws his slingshot, while fighters holding prayer beads take control of a Soviet tank, and peasants clutching pitchforks face Soviet soldiers.
From Barron's ● Jan. 22, 2026
North shot to fame playing Dennis, an impish child who wore baggy overalls with a slingshot in his back pocket and who often made a mess of things for his neighbor George Wilson.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 6, 2025
Rani pulls her slingshot and stones out of her waist pouch.
From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman
Fernando, Osmin and their two younger brothers spent their free time shooting slingshots and riding ATVs around acres of dirt roads and fields that belonged to the company where their parents worked.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
After the spacecraft slingshots past the Moon, the astronauts begin their four-day journey home, drawn back with the help of the Earth's gravity.
From BBC ● Sep. 23, 2025
Doreck’s Joe, the show’s secret weapon, slingshots across the stage.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2025
And then the book slingshots into the future.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2021
I rode horses and shot birds with slingshots and found boys to joust with, and some nights I danced the evening away to the beautiful singing and clapping of Thembu maidens.
From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela
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