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This is the first time the UK military has parachuted in medical personnel to provide humanitarian support, according to the MoD.

From BBC • May 10, 2026

To stabilize production and address shortages of engines, raw materials and semiconductors, Boeing, for example, has parachuted more specialists into its suppliers' facilities.

From Reuters • Jul. 28, 2022

Certainly, the apparent theme of the documentary — that Dulwich faces a “bleak future” and Crouch has parachuted in to save it — has not been universally accepted.

From New York Times • Nov. 3, 2021

Funk, 82, can lay claim to the title of the oldest person to go into space now that the New Shepard capsule has parachuted safely back to Earth.

From Washington Post • Jul. 20, 2021

Jonno Haim, a thirtysomething failed writer from New York, has parachuted into Detroit as a citizen journalist to tell the "real" untold story of the city's blight.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 5, 2014