yaw
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In Hover mode, the joystick provides fine-grained yaw control, allowing the BlackFly to execute its surreal pirouette.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
"The investigation found that, in the prevailing circumstances, the loss of yaw control was irrecoverable," it said in its final report on the crash.
From Reuters ● Sep. 6, 2023
Jackson is particularly proud of the clavicle, which can move forward and back as well as pitch, roll, and yaw.
From The Verge ● May 4, 2022
The ORR report said the cracks found in the Hitachi Class 800 and 385 series trains' lifting plate were the result of stress corrosion, and yaw dumper cracks were a result of fatigue.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2021
His daughter, writer Norah Christianson, remembers that he had “the body of a dancer, lithe and wiry and thin, everything in balance,” a physique ideally suited to the pitch and yaw of a horse’s withers.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Instead, the evidence suggests the children were likely affected by a nonvenereal treponemal disease such as yaws.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
Treponematosis refers to a group of diseases that includes syphilis, yaws and endemic syphilis.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 12, 2026
For example, we find examples of enslaved Africans who hailed from present-day Ghana describing inoculations for yaws, another contagious flesh disorder.
From Slate ● Sep. 4, 2023
WHO first set up a campaign to wipe yaws off the face of Earth in the 1950s.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 5, 2022
The truck yaws like a ship at sea as Neumann One coaxes it over ruts.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
High gusts whipped the plane as it moved toward the runway, and it yawed too steeply.
From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2017
The game yawed back and forth from there.
From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2017
Kirschvink also found a signal when the applied field yawed into the floor, as if the subject had looked up.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 23, 2016
At that speed, the seemingly smooth salt flats felt like a washboard, and the 6,500-lb. car bucked and yawed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Suddenly, a sloop yawed toward them and the moon filled its half sail with bright light.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
The slanting sides of the work appear as a yawing, rusted ship.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 31, 2025
“We must stabilize the rudder so the giant ships . . . will move forward against the wind and waves without yawing, stalling or colliding.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 16, 2021
Finally, two of its stabilizing gyros faltered, threatening to send the 100-ton space station yawing and pitching like an angry whale.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it enters sideways with a yawing motion, as is more likely, the heating effect is much greater.
From Time Magazine Archive
The gulls glided back around, all together, all yawing their wings to the drafts that brought them low to the water.
From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt
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