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  • The opposite component of wind set-down is called storm surge, which is very familiar in the United States recently.

    Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea 2010

  • Perhaps a (financially) safer place to pick up is the secondary Qantas set-down area on the inner loop of the airport road.

    Why Airport Parking Is Such A Rip-Off | Lifehacker Australia 2009

  • This is something that's known in meteorological science as wind set-down.

    Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea 2010

  • And in 1882, a British General named Tulloch observed a wind set-down event happen there.

    Study: Wind May Have Helped Moses Part Red Sea 2010

  • But she didn't tender him the set-down that his stupid demand deserved.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  • Alas, he hadn't been able to pursue his military studies at any length, since his time had been taken up with selling wool in London, where he'd won a bronze medal for his wares - and here he pulled it from his pocket, chuckling that it had been some set-down for the smart Londoners, a poor rustic Yankee winning their prize.

    THE NUMBERS 2010

  • When he saw how fast the XV-15 could fly, Lehman thought the tiltrotor “offered the prospect of a 300-knot entry into the battle area and a rapid set-down and a rapid departure.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • She was a cocky bitch, with a fine sense of her queenly consequence, but I wasn't fooled by her airs, or the set-down she'd tried to give me by warning me not to try to come round her with whiskery blandishments.

    Fiancée 2010

  • When he saw how fast the XV-15 could fly, Lehman thought the tiltrotor “offered the prospect of a 300-knot entry into the battle area and a rapid set-down and a rapid departure.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • When he saw how fast the XV-15 could fly, Lehman thought the tiltrotor “offered the prospect of a 300-knot entry into the battle area and a rapid set-down and a rapid departure.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

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