Thesaurus results for WINGS

wings 1 of 2

noun

plural of wing

as in factions

a group of people acting together within a larger group the conservative wing of the party

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wings

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verb

present tense third-person singular of wing

as in flies

to move through the air with or as if with outstretched wings watched the flocks of birds as they winged southward for the winter

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Recent Examples of wings

Noun

On June 6 and June 7, the space was turned into an immersive museum for the series — featuring four exhibition wings. —

Michael Schneider, Variety, 12 June 2026 Guests will have two stages of entertainment to choose from, plus the Artists’ Alley, multiple Fun Zones, the Ocean Beergarden, and wings and burger eating contests. —

Point Loma-Ob Monthly, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 June 2026 Incidents of planes clipping each other's wings on the ground are not uncommon. —

Christopher Edwards, PEOPLE, 12 June 2026 Its intersecting wings provide natural light to every room, a legal requirement that can be difficult to meet in modern commercial buildings. —

Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2026 The outcome caps one of California’s most ferocious congressional primaries, a contest that reflected the broader struggle between the Democratic Party’s moderate and progressive wings. —

Haley Parsley june 12, Sacbee.com, 12 June 2026 These migratory aerial acrobats need a lot of energy to beat their tiny wings so fast. —

Rita Pelczar, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 May 2026 Her head is destroyed, the rear body is destroyed, the wings are gone, the legs are broken. —

Jenna Ebbers, Kansas City Star, 29 May 2026 Twenty lift motors handle takeoff and landing, then the aircraft switches to forward flight using its wings for better efficiency. —

Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 28 May 2026

Verb

This news soon wings its way to Irv Ravitz (Tibor Feldman), the magazine’s publisher, who hires her to be Runway’s features editor. —

Damon Wise, Deadline, 29 Apr. 2026

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Noun

That’s likely to change in Season 3, now that both factions have added key reinforcements.

— Tracy Brown, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
The universe built for the manga – its characters, factions, and lore – also underpins Azuki TCG, the company’s trading card game, which topped $1 million in direct-to-player presales before its retail release.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 17 June 2026