as in airplane
a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
an exhibit of a few of the aeroplanes that won the Battle of Britain
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.
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Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
An aeroplane flies behind the Adani logo near a building construction site in Mumbai.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
While turbulence has occasionally caused aeroplanes to crash, most of those tragedies happened several decades ago before modern safety analysis techniques made flying safer.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
The bombardment of the open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a powerful fleet of aeroplanes … did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1000 lbs.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
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Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
An aeroplane flies behind the Adani logo near a building construction site in Mumbai.
—Sam Meredith, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2024
While turbulence has occasionally caused aeroplanes to crash, most of those tragedies happened several decades ago before modern safety analysis techniques made flying safer.
—Chas Newkey-Burden, The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
The bombardment of the open town far behind the lines occupied precisely three hours and a quarter, during which a powerful fleet of aeroplanes … did not cease unloading on the town bombs weighing from 1000 lbs.
—Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 15 Mar. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aeroplane
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But this will change over the next few years and like all major technologies from the airplane to the telephone people and businesses will soon not only trust the results of their AI applications but lean on them more to perform important tasks.—
Gene Marks,
Forbes.com,
14 Sep. 2025
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The movie was released a month after Rogers died in an airplane crash.—
John Turton,
Sacbee.com,
13 Sep. 2025
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The glow of zodiacal light aligns with the ecliptic — the sun’s path through the zodiac constellations and the plane of the solar system — which is steep at the equator and sloped at mid-northern latitudes.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
20 Sep. 2025
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Video of passengers evacuating an American Airlines flight recently showed that many brought their carry-on baggage off the plane with them – just the latest in a long line of examples of this issue.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
19 Sep. 2025
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“Aeroplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aeroplane. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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