fly-by
- a variation of flyby.
Example Sentences
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Per Salzman, however, the pilot knew the fly-by could have ended in disaster.
From Salon ● Jul. 19, 2026
Hashtags such as "fake space" and "fake NASA" have gained traction online since NASA's lunar fly-by sent astronauts farther from Earth than any human before.
From Barron's ● Apr. 11, 2026
NASA’s Artemis II fly-by mission will light up the Florida sky at launch, and observers can watch from miles away.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 31, 2026
But as soon as Wednesday, the Artemis II mission is scheduled to attempt the first crewed fly-by of the moon since 1972.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 31, 2026
But the seventeenth was the big day, every saucer this side of Polaris must have made a successful rendezvous over Farmington, because on that day most of the town's 3,600 citizens saw the mass fly-by.
From The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects by Ruppelt, Edward J.