slingshot
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He nudged his wheel right to slingshot his car around Malukas and nose ahead at some 230 mph.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 25, 2026
Taylor: Honestly, all of it, because it reminds me of a slingshot, you know what I’m saying?
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 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
"We would not accept the slingshot in the jet stream and advantage of saving fuel if the turbulence was going to be too uncomfortable", Captain Heard told me.
From BBC ● Feb. 20, 2025
Lee Strunk carried a slingshot; a weapon of last resort, he called it.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
Soboroff slingshots the reader from the Palisades fire station to the National Weather Service office, a presidential hotel room, toppled power lines in Altadena, helitankers above leveled streets and Governor Newsom’s emergency operations center.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2026
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
It slingshots from the Pacific Northwest toward southern California over the next several days.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2023
They even carried slingshots loaded with very hard acorns, in case they met up with dangerous mail bandits along their postal route.
From "The Interrupted Tale" by Maryrose Wood
