takeoff
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A slide in oil prices provided some breathing room for tech stocks’ takeoff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
Brent crude futures fell 3.4% to $100.34 a barrel, providing breathing room for the tech stock takeoff.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The Boeing 747 gifted by Qatar to serve as Donald Trump's presidential jet experienced a takeoff delay Wednesday as inspectors checked one of its inflatable slides used for emergency evacuations.
From Barron's ● Sep. 9, 2026
"The aircraft could not takeoff in this unsafe condition, so the crew elected to return to the terminal and have the two passengers disembark," it added.
From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026
Commander Yevdokia Bershanskaya cleared her pilots for takeoff.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
Teams also closely monitored how the X-59 performed during takeoffs, landings, and flight operations.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 1, 2026
Sometimes that means longer flight routes or startlingly rapid takeoffs and landings.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 8, 2026
This week the FAA slowed takeoffs at several airports in response to growing shortages, including at air traffic control centers in Atlanta, Houston and Dallas-Fort Worth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 10, 2025
All takeoffs from Israel’s main airport were halted for several hours; restaurants closed; the country’s largest port stopped working.
From Slate ● Feb. 19, 2025
There were no clever skits, no farcical takeoffs on the subject of Stanley Martin and the Nipe.
From Anything You Can Do ... by Randall Garrett
