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Recent Examples of gondola
The ticket price includes a buffet lunch at the midway point in Osier, Colorado, plus access to the open-air gondola car for better photo ops of the aspen trees that turn bright yellow in autumn.
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Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
This gondola journey to Punta Helbronner, about 11,000 feet high, is not for the faint of heart—altitude sickness is real.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
For example, the city of Sugar Land, Texas, tested an autonomous cable-rail system, utilizing electric gondolas to swiftly transport passengers between key city points without requiring transfers.
—Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
By day three, exhaustion forced me to skip a scenic section and rely on the gondola, bus, and train to reach my bed.
—Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
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Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
This gondola journey to Punta Helbronner, about 11,000 feet high, is not for the faint of heart—altitude sickness is real.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
For example, the city of Sugar Land, Texas, tested an autonomous cable-rail system, utilizing electric gondolas to swiftly transport passengers between key city points without requiring transfers.
—Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
By day three, exhaustion forced me to skip a scenic section and rely on the gondola, bus, and train to reach my bed.
—Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
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Two women take a selfie next to a mural by artist Banksy of a workman removing a star from the EU flag near the ferry terminal in Dover, Kent, in 2017.—
Rebecca Schneid,
Time,
10 Sep. 2025
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The best option is to come by the weekly ferry from Denmark; a 30 hour journey with the very real possibility of seeing whales along the way.—
Mattias Goldmann,
Forbes.com,
10 Sep. 2025
Noun
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During taxi rides and walking between terminals, schedule your non-critical phone calls.—
Arpit Jain,
Forbes.com,
8 Sep. 2025
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For those with accessibility needs, electric taxis and minibuses are available through your hotel or the tourist office.—
Alexandra Emanuelli,
Travel + Leisure,
6 Sep. 2025
Noun
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Witnesses watch as barge hits sailboat of campers The operator likely couldn’t hear from inside the pilot house atop the towboat, the captain said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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Several of the fallen containers struck a smaller clean air barge that was connected to the Mississippi at the time of the accident.—
Doc Louallen,
ABC News,
9 Sep. 2025
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The production is planning to anchor a 100-foot-barge in Brooklyn Monday for a launch event, in addition to guerilla art installations throughout the week.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
8 Sep. 2025
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The strikes took place on a military base on the peninsula and in Sevastopol Bay, a Russian tugboat was also hit, according to the GUR.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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His father, a tugboat stoker, was often away, and young Terence found solace in films, idolizing Gary Cooper and James Dean.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The proposal envisioned extensive plans for alternative transportation to stadium events to lessen the impact on Rickenbacker Causeway traffic, including water taxi service and a network of continuous shuttle buses to and from several points on the mainland.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
5 Sep. 2025
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Matt Remick falling off a water taxi outside the Excelsior?—
Alex Ritman,
Variety,
2 Sep. 2025
Noun
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The tug-and-pull over GOP members’ demands for more documents and testimony comes as lawmakers juggle the appropriations process and face an end-of-month deadline to fund the government.—
Elizabeth Crisp,
The Hill,
3 Sep. 2025
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When the state attorney’s office steps in, the prosecution pushes back, resulting in a legal and political tug of war that thrusts Adnan’s case into chaotic uncertainty.—
Peter White,
Deadline,
3 Sep. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 15 Sep. 2025.
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