from above
idiom
1
: from a higher place or position
It looks like a cross when viewed from above.
2
: from someone with greater power or authority
waiting for orders from above
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Jordan Clarkson drained a pull-up 3 from above the break, then another after Hield fell down in front of him.
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Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Gaga’s new video sees the superstar battle it out on the dance floor as three different versions of herself, while Mother Monster watches and judges from above.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
When the sanctuaries were built, there were only two ways to them: climbing up a 1,200-foot vertical path of ladders or being hoisted in a net by ropes flung from above.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
For a new study in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Weiss and her co-authors recorded skittering cricket frogs from above and below the surface at 500 frames per second and then played the videos back much more slowly.
—Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
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Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 6 Feb. 2025
Gaga’s new video sees the superstar battle it out on the dance floor as three different versions of herself, while Mother Monster watches and judges from above.
—Christian Allaire, Vogue, 3 Feb. 2025
When the sanctuaries were built, there were only two ways to them: climbing up a 1,200-foot vertical path of ladders or being hoisted in a net by ropes flung from above.
—Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 Jan. 2025
For a new study in the Journal of Experimental Biology, Weiss and her co-authors recorded skittering cricket frogs from above and below the surface at 500 frames per second and then played the videos back much more slowly.
—Rohini Subrahmanyam, Scientific American, 30 Jan. 2025
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“From above.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/from%20above. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.
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