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Definition of air basenext
as in air park

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noun (2)

as in headquarters

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Recent Examples of air base
Noun
German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026 The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division. — ABC News, 24 June 2026
Noun
An American airbase in the country was hit by Iranian missiles as part of the twelve-day war last June, in which America and Israel attacked Iran, and then Qatar was also hit by Israel later that year, when the Israelis targeted Hamas leaders in Doha. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026 Iran’s retaliatory strikes have since targeted Gulf nations and also a British airbase in Cyprus. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for air base
Recent Examples of Synonyms for air base
  1. airport
  2. fortress
  3. heliport
  4. camp
  5. jetport
  6. center
  7. helipad
  8. station
Noun
  • If you’re headed north after landing at the airport, do yourself a favor and check out these places.
    — Justin Brown, AJC.com, 26 July 2026
  • In that case, the airports are run by the city’s Chicago Department of Aviation.
    — Idaho Statesman, Idaho Statesman, 26 July 2026
Definition of airport
Noun
  • Software costs little to replicate, yielding fat profit margins and fortress balance sheets.
    — Hugh Son, CNBC, 24 July 2026
  • El Castillo de Esparza may carry the title of a fortress, but its pool, tennis court and putting greens suggest a far more leisurely kingdom.
    — Donna Hardie-Scott, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of fortress
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  • The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.
    — Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026
  • An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.
    — Michael Helbing, The Conversation, 11 June 2026
Definition of heliport
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  • In his final remarks before leaving the protest camp at the Jantar Mantar observatory, CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke hinted that his party was not going away.
    — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
  • The linebacker battle The most unsettled position headed into fall camp is the second linebacker position.
    — Steven Johnson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 July 2026
Definition of camp
Noun
  • The airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
  • Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands.
    — CHRISTINA MAYO, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025
Definition of jetport
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  • Masterson, O’Hara, Rogers and Schmidt have all raised concerns about or opposed data-center incentives.
    — Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 27 July 2026
  • Just over a year after getting a 30-day license suspension, a Sunny Isles Beach plastic surgery center got a permanent license revocation from the Florida Department of Health this month.
    — David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 27 July 2026
Definition of center
Noun
  • Trump pointed out the helipad and ballroom that are under construction on the White House grounds.
    — Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 24 July 2026
  • Construction is underway at the White House on a new helipad, ballroom, fortification of the front door and repairs to stone columns, while the Kennedy Center is still controversially draped in tarps as workers repair the marble facade.
    — Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026
Definition of helipad
Noun
  • Even now, his image is on lampposts and bus stops, in train stations and on the side of bins.
    — James Pearce, New York Times, 22 July 2026
  • For decades, media meant whatever television stations, newspapers, magazines, or radio producers decided to show us.
    — Belonging Forum, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026
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