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flew

American  
[floo] / flu /

verb

  1. a simple past tense of fly.


flew 1 British  
/ fluː /

verb

  1. the past tense of fly 1

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flew 2 British  
/ fluː /

noun

  1. a variant spelling of flue 3

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On Aug. 6, Witkoff flew to Moscow, at Putin’s invitation, for a meeting prepared only a few days in advance.

From The Wall Street Journal

She flew to the island with five friends on 2 November, to celebrate her 60th birthday.

From BBC

Then we flew north to Poland, where a little church with a big heart had taken in 60 Ukrainian refugees who had fled the war.

From The Wall Street Journal

England flew to Brisbane from Perth on Wednesday and have their own time to relax until training resumes on Saturday.

From BBC

One family flew in from Seattle to celebrate their train-loving son’s 11th birthday, another from Atlanta and North Carolina for pre-Thanksgiving marathon sessions of Mexican Train Dominoes.

From The Wall Street Journal