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Truly high-end adventures, such as an overflight of the Briksdal Glacier, are, predictably, expensive, but most of my tours were priced competitively compared to third-party options.
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024
But in a sign of Turkey’s diminished clout in Washington, this request also met with bipartisan opposition in the U.S. Congress after Turkey stalled on Sweden’s NATO membership and repeatedly conducted military overflights of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
—Henri J. Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2023
The overflight of the carrier strike group will raise questions in Congress, where Republicans seized on the spy balloon issue to accuse President Biden of failing to deter Chinese espionage.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
Then, in 2020, the U.S. withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty because Russia had abused its overflight privileges and because our national technical assets made overflight to obtain information obsolete.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 14 Aug. 2024
But in a sign of Turkey’s diminished clout in Washington, this request also met with bipartisan opposition in the U.S. Congress after Turkey stalled on Sweden’s NATO membership and repeatedly conducted military overflights of Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.
—Henri J. Barkey, Foreign Affairs, 17 Aug. 2023
The overflight of the carrier strike group will raise questions in Congress, where Republicans seized on the spy balloon issue to accuse President Biden of failing to deter Chinese espionage.
—Christian Shepherd, Washington Post, 14 Apr. 2023
Then, in 2020, the U.S. withdrew from the Open Skies Treaty because Russia had abused its overflight privileges and because our national technical assets made overflight to obtain information obsolete.
—John R. Bolton, National Review, 25 Jan. 2024
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overflight
noun
over·flight
ˈō-vər-ˌflīt 
: a flight over an area
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