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Recent Examples of gondola
The ticket price includes a buffet lunch at the midway point in Osier, Colorado, plus access to the open-air gondola car for better photo ops of the aspen trees that turn bright yellow in autumn.
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Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
This gondola journey to Punta Helbronner, about 11,000 feet high, is not for the faint of heart—altitude sickness is real.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
For example, the city of Sugar Land, Texas, tested an autonomous cable-rail system, utilizing electric gondolas to swiftly transport passengers between key city points without requiring transfers.
—Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
By day three, exhaustion forced me to skip a scenic section and rely on the gondola, bus, and train to reach my bed.
—Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
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Lyndsey Matthews, AFAR Media, 20 Aug. 2025
This gondola journey to Punta Helbronner, about 11,000 feet high, is not for the faint of heart—altitude sickness is real.
—Hannah Howard, Travel + Leisure, 16 Aug. 2025
For example, the city of Sugar Land, Texas, tested an autonomous cable-rail system, utilizing electric gondolas to swiftly transport passengers between key city points without requiring transfers.
—Nadezhda Kosareva, Forbes.com, 11 Aug. 2025
By day three, exhaustion forced me to skip a scenic section and rely on the gondola, bus, and train to reach my bed.
—Jennifer Malloy, Outside, 1 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
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Gozo, Malta Just a short ferry ride away from Malta’s main island, Gozo offers the perfect blend of charming scenery and fascinating historic attractions—and for a glimpse into the region’s distant past, Ġgantija is the perfect destination.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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The ferry takes four hours to cross the lake, a 60-mile cruise, that takes passengers, autos, RVs, tour buses, motorcycles, bicycles, and commercial trucks across Lake Michigan between Ludington and Manitowoc.—
Jalen Williams,
Freep.com,
18 Sep. 2025
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An Aeromexico Boeing 737 MAX 8 taxis at Los Angeles International Airport on September 19, 2024 in Los Angeles, California.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
16 Sep. 2025
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This year has also seen HALA expand its proposition beyond small businesses to Saudi Arabia’s growing community of freelance workers, who range from taxi drivers and photographers to lawyers and accountants.—
David Prosser,
Forbes.com,
15 Sep. 2025
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The ferryboat was on the go all day long, covering more miles in a day than the barge would cover in a century.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
17 Sep. 2025
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One foggy morning this spring, a ferryboat traversed the choppy waters between lower Manhattan and Governors Island.—
Adam Iscoe,
New Yorker,
4 Aug. 2025
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Witnesses watch as barge hits sailboat of campers The operator likely couldn’t hear from inside the pilot house atop the towboat, the captain said.—
Grethel Aguila,
Miami Herald,
3 Aug. 2025
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The Wake Pro 230 was designed around being a towboat, for water-skiing, wakeboarding, or wake-surfing.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
11 July 2025
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When that high water abated in late July, Day predicted that barge traffic on the state's largest port and the Arkansas River as a whole would return to normal.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
18 Sep. 2025
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There’s a small barge in a canal with a pole mounted on the front.—
Matthew Jackson,
Vulture,
11 Sep. 2025
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The strikes took place on a military base on the peninsula and in Sevastopol Bay, a Russian tugboat was also hit, according to the GUR.—
Brendan Cole,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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His father, a tugboat stoker, was often away, and young Terence found solace in films, idolizing Gary Cooper and James Dean.—
Daniel Ross Goodman,
The Washington Examiner,
22 Aug. 2025
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In another example, from 2012, a joint DEA-Honduran operation killed four passengers on a water taxi.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
12 Sep. 2025
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Two of our favorite hotels for park transportation are Disney’s Art of Animation Resort (with Skyliner access to EPCOT and Hollywood Studios) and The Cabins at Disney’s Fort Wilderness Resort (with water taxi access to the Magic Kingdom).—
Linnea Bailey,
Southern Living,
11 Sep. 2025
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The quasi-moon is expected to remain in its current near-Earth orbit for about another 60 years before the gravitational tug of the sun pulls it back into a horseshoe orbit.—
Ashley Strickland,
CNN Money,
16 Sep. 2025
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This pulling motion tugs on artificial bones, creating movements similar to how the human body works.—
Atharva Gosavi,
Interesting Engineering,
15 Sep. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 20 Sep. 2025.
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