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- the Wright brothers realized mankind's age-old wish to fly
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- you must fly to safety immediately
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- flew down the concourse to catch his flight
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- barrels,
- belts,
- blasts,
- blazes,
- blows,
- bolts,
- bombs
- [slang],
- bowls,
- breezes,
- bundles,
- bustles,
- buzzes,
- cannonballs,
- careens,
- careers,
- chases,
- courses,
- cracks (on),
- dashes,
- drives,
- hares,
- hastens,
- hies,
- highballs,
- hotfoots (it),
- humps,
- hurls,
- hurries,
- hurtles,
- hustles,
- jets,
- jumps,
- motors,
- nips,
- pelts,
- races,
- rams,
- rips,
- rockets,
- runs,
- rushes,
- rustles,
- scoots,
- scurries,
- scuttles,
- shoots,
- speeds,
- steps,
- tears,
- travels,
- trots,
- whirls,
- whisks,
- zips,
- zooms
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- no one in the movies ever thinks to fly from the ax murderer and immediately call the police
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- absconds,
- clears out,
- decamps,
- elopes,
- escapes,
- gets (away),
- gets out,
- lams,
- lights out,
- makes off,
- mizzles
- [chiefly British],
- scarpers
- [British],
- scats,
- scrams,
- skips (out),
- skirrs
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- the morning mist had flown, and a sparkling sea lay before us
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- the familiar "Because I said so!" is a reason that won't fly with most teenagers
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“Flies.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flies. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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