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• The attacks have injured several people but most of the rockets and drones were intercepted by air defenses or fell in open fields.
  — Anna Gordon, TIME, 30 Sep. 2024
• Food, water and other essential supplies have been delivered to the community by air, since highways and streets are impassable.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 1 Oct. 2024
• Perhaps the best way to capture the beauty of the area is by air.
  — Roger Sands, Forbes, 6 Oct. 2024
• Most of them died on Oct. 7 when the attack by air, land and sea began.
  — WSJ, 20 Oct. 2023
• In the wake of the fire, visitor arrivals by air to Maui dropped as much as 51.4 percent.
  — Leilani Marie Labong, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2024
• After this, the flight was cleared to land by air traffic control.
  — Fernando Cervantes Jr., The Arizona Republic, 28 June 2023
• That creates more voids, which too must be filled, this time by air sinking from above.
  — Paul Duginski, Los Angeles Times, 1 Aug. 2023
• Crews searched both by air and by sea without a single sighting of the person.
  — Abigail Adams, Peoplemag, 27 Nov. 2023
• The Ukrainian statement did not say whether any of the missiles had been shot down by air defences.
  — Fox News, 7 May 2024
• Sometimes, the threats arrive by air, as when bales of lethal cattle chow are dropped into the fields.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 4 Feb. 2023
• New York State Police also searched for the boy by air, police said.
  — Daniella Segura, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2024
• What took 10 days to accomplish on foot takes all of 15 minutes by air.
  — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
• Make that popcorn even better by air popping with the push of a button.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 21 Oct. 2022
• Access to the falls, which occur in three waves, is only by air or a wilderness hike in the mountains.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 4 May 2024
• Hundreds of firefighters are attacking the fire on the ground as well as by air.
  — Cari Spencer, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023
• Surveys by air and sonar not long after the sinking found the wreckage of the ship, which appeared to have broken in two.
  — Chris Foran, Journal Sentinel, 3 May 2023
• Even your sleep can also be thrown off by air pollution.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 9 June 2023
• The Russian Defense Ministry said the drone was brought down by air defenses.
  — David Rising, BostonGlobe.com, 24 Apr. 2023
• The Coast Guard worked closely with Canadian authorities to scour the area by air, sea and sonar.
  — Maham Javaid, Washington Post, 22 June 2023
• Officers returned by air and on foot Sunday morning and hiked about a half-mile to the skier.
  — Ishani Desai, Sacramento Bee, 12 Feb. 2024
• At least 20 Shahed drones were destroyed by air defense forces in Kyiv in the latest attack.
  — Susie Blann and Joanna Kozlowska, Anchorage Daily News, 30 May 2023
• Some were transported by air, and some were transported by ground, the news release said.
  — Kerry Breen, CBS News, 3 Oct. 2023
• The trade group pointed to a survey finding that six in 10 Americans would cancel or avoid trips by air in the event of a shutdown.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 22 Sep. 2023
• There are no roads or trains between the island's towns, so the easiest way to get from one destination to the next is by air.
  — Catherine Garcia, The Week Us, theweek, 15 Oct. 2024
• To top it off, there is a helipad in the bow that can facilitate comings and goings by air.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 20 Nov. 2023
• Preserve rangers will conduct surveys by air and ground once the fire is extinguished to determine the full scope of the damage.
  — Nouran Salahieh, CNN, 2 Aug. 2023
• Firefighters were tackling the flames by air in tandem with ground resources.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 18 June 2024
• Cal Fire was fighting the blaze by air and ground, and the cause remained under investigation.
  — Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 8 July 2024
• Search teams have already been on the ground with dogs, and searches have been conducted by air with heat-sensing equipment, the agency said.
  — Phil Helsel, NBC News, 6 Oct. 2023
• Aid groups complain that deliveries by air and sea by the United States and other countries are too slow and too small.
  — Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Tia Goldenberg, Quartz, 19 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 17 Dec 2024