sortie
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“The near-zero sortie counts seen on some days since February should be viewed as an extreme manifestation of a longer-term trend, rather than a sudden development,” he said.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 12, 2026
Turk’s bad back makes it a brief sortie, but the attempt confirms that their friendship remains fundamentally intact.
From Salon • Feb. 26, 2026
The F-35B landed on 14 June at Thiruvananthapuram airport in the southern state of Kerala where it was diverted after it ran into bad weather during a sortie in the Indian Ocean.
From BBC • Jul. 21, 2025
But this time the Russian plane wasn’t on a bombing sortie.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 16, 2024
All Lancelot’s muscles made an empathic sortie towards the feeling of his own armour, which he had not seen since he left Camelot.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
Vocabulary lists containing sortie
National Spelling Bee '14: Prelims Round 2
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 6
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