mid-flight
Britishadjective
noun
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Hypersonic missiles travel at more than five times the speed of sound and can manoeuvre mid-flight, making them significantly harder to track and intercept.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
The electricity it makes is expensive, its technology has been superseded, and it’s incinerating thousands of birds mid-flight each year.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2026
Its chief rival, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin, has submitted a proposal that eliminates the need for mid-flight propellant transfer, a key challenge for SpaceX, according to the New York Times.
From MarketWatch ● Nov. 5, 2025
Once he pursues a resolution and is denied, the bolts start popping off the plane mid-flight.
From Salon ● Oct. 13, 2025
This, however, had to be put off until later due to the actual great black-backed gull snatching him mid-flight and lifting him by its talons high into the air.
From "The Very, Very Far North" by Dan Bar-el
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