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Recent Examples of gondola
In addition to that, Scruton’s team built a gondola that needed to float down the canal.
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Free concerts on Wednesdays and Fridays in Mountain Village, which is just a short gondola ride away, keep the vibes rolling through the summer before the season concludes with the incomparable Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in September.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 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
Last October, terrifying video out of Ecuador captured two gondola cars detaching from a high-flying amusement park ride and crashing, leaving ten people injured, including six critically, at a traveling fairground.
—Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
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Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 3 Sep. 2025
Free concerts on Wednesdays and Fridays in Mountain Village, which is just a short gondola ride away, keep the vibes rolling through the summer before the season concludes with the incomparable Telluride Blues & Brews Festival in September.
—Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 1 Sep. 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
Last October, terrifying video out of Ecuador captured two gondola cars detaching from a high-flying amusement park ride and crashing, leaving ten people injured, including six critically, at a traveling fairground.
—Pilar Arias, FOXNews.com, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
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Weber said the next art sculpture in the works is a life-size replica of the John Hastings ferry boat, which will be installed along the Riverfront Commons Trail near Manhattan Boulevard and Berry Street in Dayton, Kentucky.—
Jolene Almendarez,
Cincinnati Enquirer,
2 Oct. 2025
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Shepler's Mackinac Island Ferry and Arnold Transit Company run ferry rides about every 30 minutes between April and October, during tourist season.—
Jenna Prestininzi,
Freep.com,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Other ways to get to Discovery Park include riding Sacramento Regional Transit buses and using taxis or rideshare apps.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
29 Sep. 2025
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The Boeing 777 was waiting between two runways to taxi to its parking spot as American Airlines flight 2453 was preparing for takeoff for Boston.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
29 Sep. 2025
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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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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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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Anemoi revealed that the sails were transported by barge and lifted directly onto the deck.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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In Abu Dhabi’s Yas Marina, another company is marketing a 31-room floating hotel — resembling a converted barge — with stays from $270 a night.—
Mohammed Sergie,
semafor.com,
1 Oct. 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
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After calling ahead for a water taxi in Ischia Ponte, we were ferried over to Da Maria's pier, and then welcomed into the open-air dining room, which faces the Gulf of Naples.—
Jacqui Gifford,
Travel + Leisure,
29 Sep. 2025
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Star & Crescent was in the passenger ferry/water taxi business, and five and sometimes six shore boats made the loop out to the Point Loma daily.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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Firefly makes rockets, space tugs and lunar landers.—
Samantha Subin,
CNBC,
30 Sep. 2025
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There is a tug of war underway for their hearts and minds.—
Steven P. Dinkin,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 5 Oct. 2025.
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