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parachute

[par-uh-shoot] / ˈpær əˌʃut /




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The gold plug was pulled, LIV scrambled to locate a new sugar daddy, and hailed savior BC Partners pulled its parachute this week.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

"Even with a reduction in parachute payments, I still feel that advantage will prove to be massively significant for those teams.⁠⁠‍⁠"

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Deducted from that is the first season of parachute payments to give a net amount.

From BBC ● Oct. 13, 2026

Warner’s outgoing chief executive Zaslav will leave with a golden parachute valued at about $887 million, which includes cash, stock and options valued at more than $550 million, according to regulatory filings.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 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

Rutz described the first minute of free fall as uneventful but said tragedy struck soon after they deployed their parachutes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 8, 2026

Die Another Day showcases the exterior of Buckingham Palace, and its surroundings, as Gustav Graves parachutes in to receive his knighthood from the Queen.

From BBC ● Oct. 24, 2026

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

For nearly 25 years, GoPro cameras have gone underwater, glided with parachutes and slipped down ski slopes, allowing the adventurous to record images of their experiences.

From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026

Yet for nearly three years, the entire 46th Guards flew their night bombing combat missions without parachutes.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein

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

Glasgow was parachuted in to host the Games after the Australian state of Victoria dropped out, and was partly picked because so much infrastructure was already in place.

From BBC ● Jul. 16, 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

British paratroopers and medics parachuted onto the island to deliver urgent medical supplies for him.

From Barron's ● May 11, 2026

“Anyone could be an enemy agent. Scouting the roads. Planning acts of sabotage. Did you hear that German troops parachuted into Holland disguised as nuns?”

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin

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

Commander Dave Lee, Royal Navy Parachute Display Team, spent the event parachuting into Pendennis Castle at the beginning of the eclipse.

From BBC ● Aug. 15, 2026

In 2026, it’s more like parachuting onto the roof.

From Barron's ● May 22, 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

Klava Fomicheva and her navigator, Galya Dzhunkovskaya, both of them long since recovered after parachuting from their burning plane that summer, flew one of these cold and dark missions over northerly Riga.

From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein


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