updraft

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But the updraft is increasingly being discounted - the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development says Canada's economy will be flat at best in 2010.

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  • Find an updraft, and you can use this machine as a glider. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • I banked away from the edges of the updraft, deep into its core. —  Marcia Muller - [16] A Wild and Lonely Place
  • Turning through a shallow three-quarter circle, she felt for the updraft, urging the hawk to go higher. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
  • Sometimes the sheer mass of rain can overpower the updraft, through accumulating weight and the cooling power of its own evaporation. —  F ;SF - vol 086 issue 01 - January 1994
  • This created an updraft, bathing Lindsay in moist air while simultaneously what felt like hot rain was pattering over her back. —  Hostage to Murder – McDermid, Val – Lindsay Gordon 06
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