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wing

[wing] / wɪŋ /
NOUN
organ, device of flight
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Loum Tchaouna: The winger provided some threat for Coventry on the wing and his speculative acrobatic effort in the first half had Raya panicking for a second.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

It asserts that the ABA’s accreditation wing isn’t sufficiently independent of its profession.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2026

In the 18th Century, the Church's missionary wing ran plantations and owned hundreds of slaves, which helped fund its work across the Americas and beyond.

From BBC Aug. 16, 2026

So by the time, Asghedom reached out to finalize “Prolific” — which carried a different title during its original 2017 sessions — Rideaux was no longer just the promising mentee Hussle took under his wing.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 12, 2026

The gentlemen standing, studies in black and white with wing collars and kid gloves.

From "Secrets at Sea" by Richard Peck

But its performance was impossible to divine in qualifying because the straight-line mode - which opens the front and rear wings to reduce drag - was not working on Fernando Alonso's car.

From BBC Aug. 21, 2026

At the foot of the coffin was an engraving of a pair of wings that were embroidered on one of her stage jackets.

From BBC Aug. 17, 2026

Cartridges fixed on the aircraft's wings contain a substance that, when dispersed, sticks to cloud droplets, making them heavy enough to fall as rain.

From Barron's Aug. 12, 2026

Sometimes his friends would even dare him to tell a joke about buffalo wings, the kind of dares that can only be conceived by years of friendship.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 10, 2026

My butterflies, their wings sodden, flap clumsily about.

From "Red Flags and Butterflies" by Sheryl Azzam

She’s then dropped into the water, where the winged creatures swarm her once more.

From Salon Aug. 20, 2026

The boy, who was not named in the report, swatted the bat off his face, after which his father caught the winged mammal in a pot and released it outside.

From BBC Jul. 2, 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

They look like winged chipmunks, and I like how unfussy they seem, how small and how brave.

From "Sparrow" by Sarah Moon

"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

They'll be winging their way around the world from February, arriving for a string of sold out UK gigs in March.

From BBC Jan. 6, 2026

Critics say he’s winging it, exaggerating wishes into declarations, tantalized by the bauble of a Nobel.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 24, 2025

Most of my career has been winging it.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 10, 2025

She usually avoided the monster, but now she sent a cluster of her moths winging nearer.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor




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