wing
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Ocasio-Cortez, widely known by her initials AOC, burst onto the national political scene with an upset congressional victory in 2018 and rapidly became a leading voice of the Democratic Party's left wing.
From Barron's ● Aug. 10, 2026
And in 2018, one wing of the Nation Museum of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro burned down with the loss of many fossil specimens that were on display.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026
The Daily Star shifts its focus to the mother of Henry Nowak's killer, who has been moved to a different wing in jail after fears of being attacked by other inmates.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
Airbus has similarly shut two sites in Salaunes and Mérignac, where it makes critical components ranging from cockpit seat structures to fuselage sections, nose cones and wing flaps for its lineup of commercial aircraft.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026
I poke and poke at a chicken wing and then just pick it up with my fingers.
From "Wayward Creatures" by Dayna Lorentz
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Allen Moyer’s set used conveyer belts to slide furniture in from the wings; Greg Emetaz’s misty videos included projections of Orpheus and Eurydice, a subtext in the work.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Social insects including bees rely on cooling behavior for example fanning their wings when things get too hot to buffer the hive but there are limits as to how effective this is in extreme heat.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 29, 2026
Diomande is able to play on both wings.
From BBC ● Jul. 29, 2026
NBCUniversal’s Peacock is stretching its wings by joining the subscription YouTube Premium service — a significant boost for the streaming platform that has struggled to find its niche in the increasingly crowded landscape.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 27, 2026
To my dying day—which I hope is still some ways off—I will hear the buzzing of those millions of tiny wings.
From "The Seven Wonders of Sassafras Springs" by Betty G. Birney
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It’s a good way not to think about the inevitability of the clouds and cold returning, and to enjoy hummingbirds and other winged neighbors up close instead of through a clammy windowpane.
From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026
His attempts to strike out independently and build his own house fail spectacularly—the first in a storm of lightning and winged ants, the second in a foolhardy scheme to clear the surrounding brush with fire.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026
The country's official motto for 2026 is "Independent neutral Turkmenistan is the homeland of purposeful winged horses".
From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 2026
They examined winged adults that were actively searching for hosts and compared them with wingless adults collected from deer after they had adopted their parasitic lifestyle.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 2, 2026
As they made their way toward the street cart, Jason worried that this winged dude might be a son of Boreas the North Wind.
From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan
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Mr. Awoke’s material is rich and his writing is stately, but as a storyteller he seems to be winging it.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
"The bottom line is, we've gone into great detail with them about the planning. We've described it to them. In fact, it's not just winging it," he told reporters after meeting lawmakers on Capitol Hill.
From Barron's ● Jan. 7, 2026
He told the BBC about his very busy schedule, which he is currently "winging".
From BBC ● Mar. 1, 2025
“There were no blueprints, there were no roadmaps. We were just completely winging it as a three-piece band, and I think we did a really good job.”
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
There were the echoes of nostalgia I heard in the crying strings of wild geese winging south against a bleak, autumn sky.
From "Black Boy" by Richard Wright
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