parachute
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The fixture is dubbed as the most lucrative game in world football, with promotion worth a minimum of £200m in broadcast revenue and parachute payments.
From BBC • May 21, 2026
In each of the past five seasons, two of the three teams promoted from the Championship were receiving parachute payments.
From BBC • Apr. 22, 2026
“Support for the golden parachute proposal is not warranted.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 9, 2026
She invented a reusable, waterproof diaper cover made first from a shower curtain and later from nylon parachute cloth, into which mothers could insert a cloth diaper pad.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 9, 2026
She did this secretly without her parents’ knowledge, until the day her father found her parachute knife in her school bag.
From "Women in Space" by Karen Bush Gibson
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