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maneuver

[muh-noo-ver] / məˈnu vər /






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While showing viewers how offensive players should hold the football to counter the maneuver , Watt encouraged Nantz to “give that a good punch.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 2026

Is Holmes’ husband trying to maneuver the situation because he cares for his wife, or because his behavioral patterns mirror those of Balwani and Holmes’ assailant?

From Salon ● Oct. 17, 2026

The maneuver subjected the airframe to an estimated 3 Gs of force, akin to what a spacecraft experiences during launch, and exceeded the 737 MAX’s operating limit of 2.5 Gs.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

These comments are what Johnson’s office sent me when I asked them to explain the maneuver over voter IDs.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 1, 2026

Root continued his maneuver, crashing directly into the icy water.

From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer

The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

The design combines the robustness needed for difficult, high-speed maneuvers with enough computational efficiency to work in real time.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Listen to how nimbly Perry maneuvers some very tricky intervals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

Go-arounds are routine maneuvers pilots perform to redo landing attempts.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026

It furthermore counseled islanders “not to talk carelessly of army or navy maneuvers which may be observed.”

From "Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel" by David Guterson

Eventually, the robot gripped the glass by the rim, maneuvered it into place and threw its hands in the air in triumph.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

In the middle of a crowded stair landing, 3-year-old Shai Yolles sat cross-legged, organizing his spent glow sticks while adults maneuvered around him.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 2, 2026

Caesar affected to disdain high office but in 27 B.C. maneuvered the Senate into bestowing upon him, as Agrippa relates, “the dignified honorific of Augustus—‘the Revered One’—close to, but not quite, divine.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

Members of the USC Reserve Officers Training Corps were in perfect step as they carefully maneuvered the documents off of the Boeing 737.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 24, 2026

Cap was doing his tai chi under the weeping willow when I maneuvered Dad’s Saab into the driveway.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman

Hypersonic missiles fly at least five times the speed of sound and their velocity and maneuvering capabilities make detection more difficult.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026

But he has been irked at what he says is Paramount’s under-the-table maneuvering.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026

Even pro-AI residents have objected to the furtive maneuvering around data centers.

From Salon ● Sep. 4, 2026

But Cook’s careful demand forecasting and supply-chain maneuvering has hit a wall with one technological development: artificial intelligence.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 29, 2026

I scrambled on all fours down the aisle, maneuvering around kids who had been tossed out of their seats.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman


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