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Recent Examples of gondola
Each gondola cabin can hold eight passengers, according to the resort’s website.
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Marnie Hunter, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Leave a comment View Comments The resort said in its statement that maintenance and mountain safety teams were dispatched to unload gondola passengers.
—Marnie Hunter, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Taking this independent option will save you money too, with roundtrip tickets for the gondola starting at 450 Norwegian kroner, approximately $40.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Take a gondola ferry A standard gondola ride costs €90 for 30 minutes during the day or €110 at night, but there’s a money-saving hack that the locals use.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
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Marnie Hunter, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Leave a comment View Comments The resort said in its statement that maintenance and mountain safety teams were dispatched to unload gondola passengers.
—Marnie Hunter, CNN, 10 Mar. 2025
Taking this independent option will save you money too, with roundtrip tickets for the gondola starting at 450 Norwegian kroner, approximately $40.
—David Nikel, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
Take a gondola ferry A standard gondola ride costs €90 for 30 minutes during the day or €110 at night, but there’s a money-saving hack that the locals use.
—Laura Itzkowitz, AFAR Media, 13 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for gondola
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On a recent afternoon, the actor Michael Gandolfini ascended an escalator to Whitehall Terminal to take the twelve-thirty ferry to Staten Island.—
Alexandra Schwartz,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2025
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Jan Nikolai, Escondido The game started during the summer of 1965 on Bainbridge Island, a short ferry ride from Seattle.—
Richard Lederer,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
12 Apr. 2025
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While Tesla and Zoox are planning but have yet to launch fully driverless taxi services, Waymo vehicles are already transporting paying customers in giant swaths of select cities with no one in the driver's seat.—
Joann Muller,
Axios,
9 Apr. 2025
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The Mets signed Dotel for just $3,000 in March 1993, eight months before his father, Emilio, was murdered in a robbery while working his second job as a taxi driver.—
Tyler Kepner,
New York Times,
9 Apr. 2025
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As a teenager, Ellen Dare Burling had an unusual summer job: Jumping off a moving ferryboat onto wooden piers, her arms filled with letters and packages destined for summer residents in their southern Wisconsin lake houses.—
Trevor Hughes,
USA Today,
30 Mar. 2025
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This is the quartet’s 10th season aboard the 1898 steam ferryboat Berkeley.—
Beth Wood,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
16 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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According to her Forbes profile, Ingram Marine operates 5,000 barges and approximately 150 towboats on America's inland waterways.—
Diana Leyva,
The Tennessean,
11 Dec. 2024
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The barges appear to be connected in a continuous span, with the lead ship's ramp extended past the beach.—
Raja Krishnamoorthi,
Newsweek,
13 Mar. 2025
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In 2002, a freight barge struck a pier of Oklahoma’s Interstate 40 bridge after the towboat’s captain lost consciousness, collapsing a section of the bridge and killing 14.—
Marc Ramirez,
USA TODAY,
24 Mar. 2025
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In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.—
David Axe,
Forbes,
9 Mar. 2025
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The journey downriver began at around 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, with tugboats guiding the ship under the Walt Whitman Bridge about 10 minutes before low tide, when the clearance would be greatest.—
Isabelle Taft,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
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In a statement obtained PEOPLE, the city denied reports from Italian and international media outlets that weddings organizers for the Amazon founder, 61, and former journalist, 55, had booked large amounts of hotel rooms as well as gondolas and water taxis for daily transportation.—
Charlotte Phillipp,
People.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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This getaway includes water taxi tickets for viewing the beautiful cherry blossoms along the Potomac shoreline.—
Taryn White,
Forbes,
12 Mar. 2025
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For example, the sun’s gravity tugs harder on the moon than Earth’s does!—
Phil Plait,
Scientific American,
21 Mar. 2025
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Aviles was slapped with a red card after a tackle in the penalty area and a shirt tug that was deemed a denial of a scoring chance for New York.—
Michelle Kaufman,
Miami Herald,
23 Feb. 2025
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“Gondola.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gondola. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.
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