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They looked so shy, so endearingly perplexed in their green overcoats and silly moth-eaten caps, the long earflaps out at an angle, as if the air had lofted them mid-flight.

From New York Times • Nov. 14, 2019

Already he had lofted a promotional weather balloon 40 stories above the shopping plaza.

From Washington Post • May 24, 2015

Al Habsi then produced a brilliant one-handed save to turn away a header from Robert Snodgrass after the left-back Javier Garrido had lofted the ball to the far post.

From The Guardian • Dec. 15, 2012

That same month a 1.2-meter piece of a Delta 2 rocket motor that in 2003 had lofted a GPS satellite into orbit fell in Uruguay.

From Scientific American • Aug. 31, 2011

Housewives, who had lofted department store sales in August 16% above the 1932 level, were flocking back to the counters; the downward sweep of the long-delayed normal summer slump seemed to be flattening out.

From Time Magazine Archive