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Recent Examples of flight path
What To Know On Monday, a Spirit Airlines flight path shared on social media by Flightradar24, a live flight tracker, showed a plane flying through the storm.
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Along Foreman’s flight path, police found a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, both of which were used to fire at the victims.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
There’s also something known as the point of no return, a point in the flight path at which an aircraft can’t safely return to its departure airfield, or divert to other airfields.
—George Petras, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
This causes a sudden, disorienting shift in the drone’s flight path, making it that much harder for the anti-drone missile to do its job.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
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Anna Skinner, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
Along Foreman’s flight path, police found a revolver and a semi-automatic pistol, both of which were used to fire at the victims.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 20 Aug. 2025
There’s also something known as the point of no return, a point in the flight path at which an aircraft can’t safely return to its departure airfield, or divert to other airfields.
—George Petras, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2025
This causes a sudden, disorienting shift in the drone’s flight path, making it that much harder for the anti-drone missile to do its job.
—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 4 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for flight path
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Moscow has also touted a Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS) capability, enabling warheads to be placed on low-Earth orbital trajectories toward their targets, a profile that complicates early detection and interception.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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If gusts build, expect lower trajectories, more long irons off tees and conservative lines to back pins.—
Jenny Catlin,
New York Times,
8 Oct. 2025
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The move into making dramas in the micro format figures for Inter Medya because a lot of the series in the micro-drama world are telenovela-esque, with dramatic and soapy arcs and a large number of episodes, and Inter Medya is well-versed in the traditional long form of the telenovela.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
6 Oct. 2025
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But in the small areas of freedom McAvoy allows himself outside the main thrust of the familiar rags-to-riches-to-regret arc there are sharp little digressions and darker shadowy corners that suggest there’s more to the film, and to McAvoy as a filmmaker, than initially meets the eye.—
Jessica Kiang,
Variety,
4 Oct. 2025
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The new truck routes and restrictions are the result of study, coordination and collaboration between city officials, local residents, area small business owners and trucking companies, city officials said.—
Keith Matheny,
Freep.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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This left kids, seniors and people from nonwhite, working-class communities with few alternative routes.—
Menika Dirkson,
The Conversation,
3 Oct. 2025
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If the Ravens don't have a path to competing this season, moving him would absolutely make sense.—
Evan Massey,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Trotter also pays tribute to the creative path taken by Laura Braggion, Bottega Veneta’s first female creative lead, whose 20-year tenure from the 1980s helped shape the legacy of the house defined by craft, innovation, restraint and stealth power.—
Joelle Diderich,
Footwear News,
8 Oct. 2025
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The researchers also uncovered signs of immune and inflammation pathways involved in the disease, which could help guide treatment in the future.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Oct. 2025
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The J-1s are short-term visas for cultural exchange programs that aren’t subject to the new fee but, unlike the H-1B, don’t offer a pathway to permanent residency.—
Jessica Coacci,
Fortune,
8 Oct. 2025
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The track is a synthesis of where Swift is in her life, in a pop era threaded with happiness, family and the promise of forever.—
Bryan West,
USA Today,
3 Oct. 2025
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That’s partly because, after years of living in lo-fi and recording on a four-track machine, the band can now open the doors to prestigious studios with top-dollar equipment (alongside producer Alex Farrar).—
Ethan Shanfeld,
Variety,
3 Oct. 2025
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The Los Angeles Dodgers celebrated a two-game lead over the Phillies in the National League Division Series, and as Turner neared the dugout steps, the anger returned.—
Matt Gelb,
New York Times,
7 Oct. 2025
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Elwood Bar and Grill The Elwood, at the corner of Brush and East Adams, is steps from Comerica Park.—
Susan Selasky,
Freep.com,
7 Oct. 2025
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And Maeve goes through a lot during the season and a lot of the scenes are challenging, but in the best way.—
Keith Phipps,
Vulture,
6 Oct. 2025
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Are the bees, in fact, pantomiming the way itself?—
Maria Mocerino,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Oct. 2025
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“Flight path.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/flight%20path. Accessed 10 Oct. 2025.
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