flying wedge
Americannoun
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The Shahed—a deceptively simple and destructive flying wedge of fiberglass, microchips and explosives costing as little as $20,000—helps show how weapons proliferation has changed, and why tapping global supply chains is now so important.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
Among other changes, they eliminated the flying wedge and allowed the forward pass, which made the game marginally safer.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2023
Mass momentum plays like the flying wedge were also common.
From Slate ● Nov. 13, 2020
By 1894 the flying wedge, the most dangerous football play of its time because it allowed the offensive team a running start before it crossed the line of scrimmage, was banned.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2012
"The flying wedge," announced the Maestro, in the tone of the knickerbockered flunkey ushering his Grace, the Lord Hunter of the Billion Mark, into the Reception Hall.
From Caybigan by James Hopper
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