glide slope
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of glide slope
First recorded in 1945–50
Example Sentences
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“You’ve got a very steep glide slope coming down the hill. It’s very tight.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 25, 2018
“Nobody wants to see Libya on a glide slope to the kind of situation that already engulfed Syria and Iraq,” Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said last week.
From Time ● Feb. 19, 2016
We don’t want to be on a glide slope to a situation like Syria and Iraq.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2016
Army General John Campbell told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the options, which he supported, dealt with the "glide slope" and "locations" for withdrawals in the summer of 2015.
From Reuters ● Feb. 12, 2015
“It had been sent to another island to be repaired. So there was a notice to airmen that the glide slope was not operating.”
From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell
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