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Recent Examples of gondola
Cable cars, in other words, that don't all have to go the same way, switching freely between cables that can be much shorter and cheaper than several miles of regular gondola line.
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New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025
Winter Park compensated those who were stuck on the gondola with two lift tickets and a $10 resort voucher.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
Riders still get the panoramic views of a gondola, but the wait is longer, and the cabin is less comfortable (with standing room and only two seats in each) than those developed for cities in Latin America, Europe and North Africa.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
More than 180 people were evacuated from the Winter Park gondola on Dec. 21 when a metal beam on a lift tower broke.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
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New Atlas, 15 Jan. 2025
Winter Park compensated those who were stuck on the gondola with two lift tickets and a $10 resort voucher.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
Riders still get the panoramic views of a gondola, but the wait is longer, and the cabin is less comfortable (with standing room and only two seats in each) than those developed for cities in Latin America, Europe and North Africa.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Jan. 2025
More than 180 people were evacuated from the Winter Park gondola on Dec. 21 when a metal beam on a lift tower broke.
—John Meyer, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
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However, the special $3 PATH ferry tickets people received expired overnight and are not refundable.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
25 Feb. 2025
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Because of its ferry port with daily departures to Denmark, Kristiansand makes an obvious choice for an overnight break as part of a longer Scandinavian road trip.—
David Nikel,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
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Informal work takes many different forms globally and includes jobs such as street sellers, unregistered taxi drivers, domestic workers and day laborers.—
Meera Senthilingam,
CNN,
7 Mar. 2025
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She’s rushed to a hospital while Rick follows in a taxi.—
Dave Nemetz,
TVLine,
2 Mar. 2025
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Maritime Museum of San Diego seeks volunteers The nonprofit Maritime Museum of San Diego starts the next Docent Volunteer Training Program for newcomers Jan. 21 at the museum on the upper deck of the ferryboat Berkeley.—
Linda Mcintosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
10 Jan. 2025
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For example, when over 1,000 people died in a ferryboat accident in the Red Sea in 2006, critics accused the military of failing to deploy quickly enough to rescue them.—
Jeff Martini,
Foreign Affairs,
1 Sep. 2011
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2024
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Another Washington's treaty ally, Japan, reported that a submarine and a rescue towboat of Russia on December 3 were sailing northward in the waters between two of the country's southwestern islands , a marginal sea of the Western .—
Ryan Chan,
Newsweek,
9 Dec. 2024
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Last fall Vineyard Theatre premiered the Wind and the Rain: A Story About Sunny’s Bar, on a barge in Red Hook, Brooklyn.—
Jeryl Brunner,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2025
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On Saturday, dozens of spectators and journalists watched the tugs maneuver the barge into place while police kept boaters away from the site.—
Gary Robbins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Feb. 2025
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The dock will be used by a small tugboat and a barge with equipment to vacuum sand and pump it through a pipe in a watery slurry onto the shoreline from Pine Avenue to just north of Cannon Road.—
Phil Diehl,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 Feb. 2025
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Francis then defrauded the U.S. government of at least $35 million by charging heavily inflated prices for routine services such as security, tugboats, trash removal, food and water replenishment.—
Alex Riggins,
The Mercury News,
20 Feb. 2025
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Alternatively, water taxis and ferries connect the island to the city, making multiple daily journeys.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
2 Feb. 2025
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Here, water taxis and bike trails can lead you to charming shopping areas that are peppered with boutiques, galleries, and restaurants.—
Karla Walsh,
Southern Living,
1 Feb. 2025
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Doing so could allow the density of the asteroid to be calculated, based on its gravitational tug on the spacecraft.—
Jonathan O’Callaghan,
New York Times,
23 Feb. 2025
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Indestructible ring ball: $24.99 Big dogs who like to play tug or chew their toys will love this indestructible ring ball.—
Christopher Murray,
Fox News,
18 Feb. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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