Thesaurus results for LOFTING

lofting

verb

present participle of loft

as in throwing

to send through the air especially with a quick forward motion of the arm he lofted the ball down the center of the field toward a receiver

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Recent Examples of lofting Jackson Blankenship got the assist on the goal by lofting a long cross from the far right side to Blische who was in front of the goal on the left side. —

Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 Apr. 2026 After a scoreless first half, Doria found the net by lofting a right-footed shot from top, corner of the penalty box over the Bishop O’Dowd goalkeeper in the 45th minute. —

Dan Albano, Oc Register, 15 Mar. 2026 Those summer days of Williams moving around and lofting passes toward the target prepared him for that moment. —

Kevin Fishbain, New York Times, 16 Jan. 2026 Six of those missions have been completed to date, lofting 153 Project Leo satellites to the final frontier. —

Mike Wall, Space.com, 14 Dec. 2025 After not blitzing for three-plus quarters, Kuhr packed all of the Patriots' blitzes into the Bengals' final series, which ended with Flacco lofting an incompletion in the face of extra rushers. —

Andrew Callahan, Boston Herald, 25 Nov. 2025 Now, based on the new research, scientists suspect dust devils may play a larger role in lofting dust into the Martian air than previously thought. —

Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 This last item involves lofting a specialized spacecraft into orbit, armed with grippers or other satellite-wrangling tech that can target and grab orbiting stuff. —

IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025 On Tuesday’s flight, Starship’s 232-foot-tall Super Heavy booster, which normally returns to land in its launch tower’s giant chopstick-like catch-arms, instead targeted the Gulf of Mexico waters after lofting Starship to space. —

Reuters, NBC news, 27 Aug. 2025

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Though the arrest took place in 2023, the incident made headlines again in March after a video of the altercation — showing Paul yelling, putting Mortensen in a headlock and throwing chairs at him while a child could be heard crying — was published by TMZ.

— Becca Longmire, PEOPLE, 20 Apr. 2026
Billy Cook dropped a bunt to move Bart to third, but Feduccia took too long throwing to first, so the Pirates had two on with no outs.

— Marc Topkin, The Orlando Sentinel, 19 Apr. 2026