vaulting
1Origin of vaulting
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Other definitions for vaulting (2 of 2)
leaping up or over.
used in vaulting: a vaulting pole.
excessive in ambition or presumption; overweening; high-flown: vaulting ambition;vaulting pride.
Origin of vaulting
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How to use vaulting in a sentence
Beyond this, Beijing’s “Belt and Road Initiative,” which seeks to transform the whole of Eurasia, and the maritime “String of Pearls” concept, which attempts something similar in the Indo-Pacific, shows the PRC’s vaulting ambition.
80 Years On, It's Unclear the U.S. Would Win a New Battle of Midway | Steven McGregor | June 3, 2022 | TimeWe’re not pole-vaulting over the lines here, but it’s more than what has been in the past, but it remains to be seen what the Congressional reaction to this will be and I think that’s what’s making everyone very nervous right now.
Kill Your Algorithm: Listen to episode two of the podcast featuring tales from a more fearsome FTC | Kate Kaye | October 28, 2021 | DigidayThe combination of its vaulting promise and tenuous future captures well the larger state of play in the world of green jobs.
The Auto Industry Is Going Green. Will Workers Go Along for the Ride? | Justin Worland | August 12, 2021 | TimeOne in particular is worth looking at, in light of what happened to Biles on the vaulting floor in Tokyo on July 27, 2021.
Simone Biles was abandoned by American Olympic officials, and the torment hasn’t stopped | Sally Jenkins | July 29, 2021 | Washington PostOne fliptwisttwisttableElite male gymnasts, who use a higher vaulting table and generally have more power, already have performed double-flipping Yurchenkos in competition, but it’s still not common.
Yurchenko and beyond: The origins of Simone Biles’s revolutionary vault | Emily Giambalvo | June 4, 2021 | Washington Post
The film is going to be a huge critical and commercial hit, vaulting Stoller into the upper echelon of Hollywood comedy directors.
The Unheralded Comedy Genius: Nicholas Stoller on ‘Neighbors,’ Zac Efron’s ‘Darkness,’ and Diddy | Marlow Stern | May 8, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet it is his warnings that stand up better than the more vaulting ambitions of some of Grunwald's more preferred protagonists.
The blockbuster Rush Hour films soon followed, immediately vaulting Tucker to the A-list.
Chris Tucker’s Journey From Tax Problems to ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ | Marlow Stern | November 14, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe nave is modern (by Street, 1877), imitating the choir of the 14th century, with its curious skeleton-vaulting in the aisles.
They saw faint images of painted martyrs and angels peering down from the frieze and vaulting.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThis roof, with its dormer windows, did not cover a stone vaulting, but a panelled ceiling.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | UnknownThere was no vaulting, the church having a timber-work roof in shape of an inverted keel.
Ypres and the Battles of Ypres | UnknownAt the triforium base foliated brackets support vaulting shafts of three clustered columns.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Carlisle | C. King Eley
British Dictionary definitions for vaulting (1 of 2)
/ (ˈvɔːltɪŋ) /
one or more vaults in a building or such structures considered collectively
British Dictionary definitions for vaulting (2 of 2)
/ (ˈvɔːltɪŋ) /
excessively confident; overreaching; exaggerated: vaulting arrogance
used to vault: a vaulting pole
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