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Recent Examples of gondola
Take the seven-minute gondola lift up, then drive a plastic cart down the banked corners and dips of a mile-long luge course.
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New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Here’s hoping McCourt gives us a path of some kind — whether the city approves the gondola or not — because a pretty walk generations can enjoy would be a prettier civic legacy than driving a team into bankruptcy.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, a hilly section of the southern suburbs is now served by a gondola, Greater Paris’ first.
—Marie Patino, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
The gondola doors slide shut at the new East Village base of Deer Valley, and within seconds we're lifted high above the mountainside.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
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New York Times, 2 Apr. 2026
Here’s hoping McCourt gives us a path of some kind — whether the city approves the gondola or not — because a pretty walk generations can enjoy would be a prettier civic legacy than driving a team into bankruptcy.
—Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2026
Meanwhile, a hilly section of the southern suburbs is now served by a gondola, Greater Paris’ first.
—Marie Patino, Bloomberg, 20 Mar. 2026
The gondola doors slide shut at the new East Village base of Deer Valley, and within seconds we're lifted high above the mountainside.
—Jessica Chapel, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Mar. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
Noun
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An encroaching fog is disrupting the ferry schedule.—
Ben Travers,
IndieWire,
29 Apr. 2026
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The ferry departs from Ceiba, just over an hour's drive southeast from San Juan.—
Jessica Chapel,
Condé Nast Traveler,
29 Apr. 2026
Noun
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On a main avenue in Casablanca, Morocco’s largest city, taxi drivers honked their horns and bus drivers parked their vehicles to protest rising fuel costs.—
Sylvie Corbet,
Los Angeles Times,
1 May 2026
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The victim reportedly claimed Holder had entered her taxi and her home uninvited.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
1 May 2026
Noun
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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
Noun
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But crew numbers for each towboat are the same.—
Edward Lotterman,
Twin Cities,
1 Feb. 2026
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The gig is providing extra income for Novinska, who's typically a towboat captain pushing barges full of goods on the river.—
Madeline Heim,
jsonline.com,
1 Dec. 2025
Noun
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The largest piece of hardware for NASA’s Artemis III mission arrived at Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on Monday after a trip by barge from its factory in New Orleans, Florida Today reports.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
1 May 2026
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The barge is now expected to go around the northern tip of Denmark via the strait of Skagerrak toward the North Sea.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
30 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The most powerful electric tugboat in the world has successfully completed sea trials and is not set to enter service to cut towing emissions by up to 90 percent.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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One was heavy enough to secure the tugboat; Lind sold it to Danielson for the price of the raw iron.—
Tessa Stuart,
Rolling Stone,
23 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Best Bars Bar One Travel by dinghy or water taxi from the main island to Bar One, a floating bar anchored offshore in Admiralty Bay.—
Carley Rojas Avila,
Travel + Leisure,
22 Apr. 2026
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Since the water taxi launched in January, there have been more than 1,000 riders a day, on average, according to data the city of Miami Beach provided to the Miami Herald.—
Aaron Leibowitz,
Miami Herald,
16 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Instead, use your thumb and forefinger to grasp the berry at the stem and give it a gentle tug.—
Kait Hanson,
Southern Living,
25 Apr. 2026
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Matching net-zero targets The Svitzer Balder is an innovative TRAnsverse tug design.—
Georgina Jedikovska,
Interesting Engineering,
23 Apr. 2026
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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