as in overhead
to or in a higher place the ease with which he can hold a ballerina aloft with one hand is awesome

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Recent Examples of aloft The song describes the scene when the hundreds of thousands of Woodstock attendees held candles aloft during her performance. Marcus K. Dowling, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025 SpaceX currently has about 8,000 Starlink satellites aloft, and removing a few launches from the manifest this year wasn’t seen as a show-stopping problem, the people said. Bloomberg, Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2025 Longtime guitarist Dougie Needles swung his axe over his left shoulder, holding it aloft for a late solo during the closing number. Jim Ryan, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025 The men were flying lab rats, sent aloft to determine if human beings could survive in space for the fortnight the longest lunar missions would last. Jeffrey Kluger, Time, 9 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aloft
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  • In the movie Kilgore is at the center of a fiery, chaotic battle with helicopters flying overhead.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • CrowdStrike says the integration can deliver up to 70% faster incident response and up to 40% less ingestion overhead, with meaningful storage savings as well.
    Tony Bradley, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
Adverb
  • A touch of piano and pedal steel guitar bracket verses that swing upward to meet a chorus steeped in Sheeran’s authentically raw vocals.
    Melissa Ruggieri, USA Today, 12 Sep. 2025
  • Studies have found that those working upward of 52 hours a week experience declines in processing speed, memory consolidation and emotional regulation.
    Alice Gibbs, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
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  • The key factor here is whether the product meets our rigorous and definitive clean standard (detailed above) while offering exceptional and impressive results.
    Sophia Panych, Allure, 16 Sep. 2025
  • As noted above, the $300 bonus offer is easily activated with a $5 bet on either game.
    Tyler Everett, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Aloft.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aloft. Accessed 18 Sep. 2025.

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