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fly

[flahy] / flaɪ /






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The “semireusable” rocket Mr. Musk described to skeptical senators became a fleet of boosters that land themselves and fly again.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 11, 2026

Today, SpaceX has a fleet of rockets that fly missions for the U.S. government, and Shotwell is the second-highest-ranking executive at the company, behind Musk.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 11, 2026

The female screwworm fly lays its larvae in a wound or an opening of an animal.

From Slate • Jun. 11, 2026

To create the connectome, researchers sliced a single fruit fly into thousands of extremely thin serial sections.

From Science Daily • Jun. 10, 2026

Mal Arvorian could fly only when the wind blew.

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell




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