aerial

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Recent Examples of aerial Circumstances surrounding the victim’s location, extended extrication time and the nature of the injuries resulted in a request for Maryland State Police Aviation Command to perform an aerial hoist rescue, police said. Matt Hubbard, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2025 Reed tried his own aerial maneuver, taking out Uso and Reigns with a suicide dive. Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 3 Aug. 2025 The Kremlin’s aerial attacks on Ukrainian population centers have ramped up sharply this year, leaning heavily on cheap-to-manufacture drone swarms that are intended to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defenses. Daria Tarasova-Markina, CNN Money, 1 Aug. 2025 That’s a 17% discount, giving first-time pilots and seasoned flyers alike an unbeatable opportunity to get premium aerial footage without breaking the bank. New Atlas, 28 July 2025 See All Example Sentences for aerial
Recent Examples of Synonyms for aerial
vertical
Adjective
  • Prior estimates all relied on a method that incorporates the length and vertical relief of uplifted landforms, but that produces different shrinkage estimates depending on the number of faults included in the dataset.
    Sarah Stanley, Space.com, 17 Aug. 2025
  • Career growth inside companies still follows a narrow script—progress often defined by vertical movement alone.
    Vibhas Ratanjee, Forbes.com, 17 Aug. 2025

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“Aerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerial. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.

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