Thesaurus results for GLIDER

glider

noun

as in sailplane

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Recent Examples of glider The four-door GT was bigger and more comfortable in every way, a glider from the future that proved definitively that the company that built a defining car of the 1960s is now something else entirely. —

Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 31 Mar. 2026 The project began as a simple sound-and-light upgrade last August but became a massive historic preservation effort after workers discovered 1950s-era murals depicting the history of flight, from Leonardo Da Vinci’s Renaissance glider to Clipper planes flown by Pan Am. —

Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 26 Mar. 2026 The frame, featuring foot rests in lieu of pedals, sits closer to the ground for easier mounting, and the battery has been repositioned to give the glider a lower, more stable center of gravity. —

Sasha Richie, Dallas Morning News, 24 Mar. 2026 One morning this fall, on a stubbly brown field in Boulder, a glider pilot named Dan Swenson stared up at the sky and shook his head. —

Burkhard Bilger, New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for glider

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Whether racing dune buggies along the Massachusetts coast, piloting a yellow sailplane, or sharing a silent chess match with Faye Dunaway, his shades were always front and center.

— Kate Donnelly, Forbes.com, 27 May 2025
The same tendency also affects drones, with the original $1 million Predator, a simple uncrewed sailplane with a camera, morphing into the $22 million Reaper.

— David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2023