parachute
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For relegation, this is the minimum value of being in the Premier League for the next season, minus the received parachute payment.
From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026
"Airdropping personnel with parachute systems is impractical because, unfortunately, the enemy's assets can neutralize them very rapidly," said 24-year-old instructor Axel.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
The Soyuz MS-28 spacecraft touched down safely by parachute on July 26 at 5:27 a.m.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 27, 2026
As military aircraft staged flyovers, members of the Army and Navy parachute teams jumped with giant U.S. flags over the mall.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 4, 2026
On Zinaida’s first parachute jump, one of those too-big men’s boots slid off in the air, taking with it the cloth she’d wrapped around her foot to fill out the boot.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
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Former Montana smokejumper — a firefighter who parachutes into rural terrain to contain wildfires — Sam Forstag is also hoping to go to D.C. as the state’s first Democratic member of Congress in 30 years.
From Salon ● Jul. 9, 2026
Ellis herself—portrayed by the much-honored English actress Sharon D. Clarke—is a specialist of sorts, a crack investigator who parachutes into under-resourced locales to help with cases deemed otherwise unsolvable.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026
All three landed under good parachutes but two people collided with each other during the freefall.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2026
With the capsule descending beneath huge parachutes to gently splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, the astronauts were back on Earth.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2026
After six months of packing parachutes, Oshiro was tired of the long, repetitive days.
From "Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam" by Elizabeth Partridge
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He was parachuted into parliament in a by-election last month to take his place on the green benches and, weeks later, at the top of the greasy pole.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026
A hairdresser from north Wales has spoken of her joy after being parachuted in to be a stylist at the wedding of Venezuela Fury, the daughter of boxer Tyson Fury.
From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026
Base jumpers parachuted from its heights, and a performance artist recorded himself teetering along a 1-inch-wide slackline strung between two of the properties’ 40-story towers.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 28, 2026
There is speculation that a compromise candidate could be parachuted into the process at the behest of the powerful five veto-wielding Security Council members -- Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
From Barron's
The passenger, in a helmet and bright orange flight suit, had parachuted down near a village in the Ural Mountains.
From "Fallout: Spies, Superbombs, and the Ultimate Cold War Showdown" by Steve Sheinkin
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The 82nd can perform a range of missions including shooting down threats and parachuting into hostile territory to secure airfields and land.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026
But in a rare GQ profile ahead of his much-anticipated new film, “Digger,” Cruise’s zeal reaches heights even the intrepid actor might think twice about parachuting from.
From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026
Approach this as a collaborative effort, not as a sister parachuting into his personal and financial life all guns blazing.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 23, 2026
In one striking photo, a kneeling US pilot is confronted by a Kuwaiti local, moments after parachuting from his jet.
From Barron's ● Mar. 10, 2026
Another plus of parachuting experience was that early cosmonauts had to parachute thousands of feet after reentering the Earth's atmosphere.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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