take wing
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“You have to have your own internal reason for doing it. For me, it is wanting to share this glorious music and then to see it just take wing and fly.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 6, 2022
Rendered on the page in glyph-laden phonetic spellings that are apt to confound the unlettered, these words take wing when released into sound.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022
The continuation of society itself currently depends on good people to govern themselves, but in South Park, where the average American’s worst impulses take wing and soar, that’s a lot to ask.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 2, 2020
The tech titans of Silicon Valley are the latest to take wing, with venture-backed helicopter start-ups like Blade and Uber Copter.
From New York Times ● Feb. 1, 2020
Riders would be after them within the day, birds would take wing, and surely one of the river lords would want to curry favor with his father enough to take a hand.
From "A Game of Thrones" by George R.R. Martin
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