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Recent Examples of gondola
Bennett wants to go to the hot springs, ride the gondola, and hit the slopes again.
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Lisa Kadane, AFAR Media, 1 Apr. 2025
Kempinski Palace Engelberg is located in the center of town; everything from the Engelberg gondola to the town's Benedictine Monastery is a five to 15-minute walk from the hotel.
—Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025
The Venice gondola association did not report an uptick in June reservations.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
That’s why early-season skiing at Keystone and Vail can involve skiing at the top of the mountain, but riding the lift or gondola down to the base rather than skiing.
—John Meyer, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
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Lisa Kadane, AFAR Media, 1 Apr. 2025
Kempinski Palace Engelberg is located in the center of town; everything from the Engelberg gondola to the town's Benedictine Monastery is a five to 15-minute walk from the hotel.
—Alexandra Cheney, Travel + Leisure, 9 Mar. 2025
The Venice gondola association did not report an uptick in June reservations.
—Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Money, 28 Mar. 2025
That’s why early-season skiing at Keystone and Vail can involve skiing at the top of the mountain, but riding the lift or gondola down to the base rather than skiing.
—John Meyer, Denver Post, 11 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
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Its Milan Casa Cipriani occupies a former palace, while its lower Manhattan site is housed in a converted ferry terminal.—
Andres Viglucci,
Miami Herald,
24 Apr. 2025
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Arriving goods can then be loaded onto electric vehicles and placed on smaller ferries at adjacent Piers 9a and 9b for transport to delivery locations like Pier 92 at W. 52nd St. in Manhattan.—
Tom Fox,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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Officer Tietjen was stationed at the PATH station in Midtown and commandeered a taxi to reach the World Trade Center.—
Thomas Tracy,
New York Daily News,
22 Apr. 2025
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One thing that every taxi driver will talk about these days is Donald Trump.—
Paul Bedard,
The Washington Examiner,
21 Apr. 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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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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The Motor Vessel Neil N. Diehl went through Lock and Dam 2, in Hastings on Wednesday, with nine barges.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
20 Mar. 2025
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Related article Recovery of DC jet wreckage begins as investigators review new information The wreckage was transferred, one piece at a time, from a barge to a flatbed truck parked only a couple of hundred feet from the airport’s main runway.—
Andy Rose,
CNN,
5 Feb. 2025
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In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The journey downriver began at around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with tugboats guiding the ship under the Walt Whitman Bridge about 10 minutes before low tide, when the clearance would be greatest.—
Isabelle Taft,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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In a statement obtained PEOPLE, the city denied reports from Italian and international media outlets that weddings organizers for the Amazon founder, 61, and former journalist, 55, had booked large amounts of hotel rooms as well as gondolas and water taxis for daily transportation.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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This getaway includes water taxi tickets for viewing the beautiful cherry blossoms along the Potomac shoreline.—
Taryn White,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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Duke of Cornwall) watched a team building exercise — tug of war! — and met with young farmers making up the next generation.—
Janine Henni,
People.com,
26 Mar. 2025
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There’s a kind of implicit prayer in this that the withering of today’s Hollywood system is a presage for something better, giving the entire production a painful, nostalgic quality that tugs at your chest even as what unfolds before you is remarkably dumb.—
Nicholas Quah,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 2 May. 2025.
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