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Recent Examples of airliner
Why a business jet first Spike frames the S‑512 as a low‑boom business jet rather than a large airliner, an important strategic choice.
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
At least four Korean conglomerates have announced deals and investment plans worth tens of billions of dollars, such as plans by the country’s top airliner Korean Air to spend $50 billion on aircraft and engine orders from Boeing and others.
—Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The remains of three more of the thousands of victims killed during the 9/11 attacks have been identified, nearly 25 years after terrorists flew commercial airliners into Manhattan’s iconic twin towers.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Such levels would be high enough to power a regional passenger airliner with multiple motors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
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Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2025
At least four Korean conglomerates have announced deals and investment plans worth tens of billions of dollars, such as plans by the country’s top airliner Korean Air to spend $50 billion on aircraft and engine orders from Boeing and others.
—Gawon Bae, CNN Money, 26 Aug. 2025
The remains of three more of the thousands of victims killed during the 9/11 attacks have been identified, nearly 25 years after terrorists flew commercial airliners into Manhattan’s iconic twin towers.
—Leonard Greene, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2025
Such levels would be high enough to power a regional passenger airliner with multiple motors.
—IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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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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The Spirit jet, en route from Fort Lauderdale to Boston, came within eight miles laterally of the presidential aircraft before adjusting course.—
Amanda Castro
Hannah Parry
Shane Croucher
Jack Royston,
MSNBC Newsweek,
18 Sep. 2025
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In footage posted on social media by 7NEWS Australia, flames can be seen bursting from the plane's engines, followed by a puff of smoke as the aircraft accelerates on the runway.—
Escher Walcott,
PEOPLE,
17 Sep. 2025
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Her child looks up at the aeroplane in the sky, flying through dusk, through twilight, flying through the beginning of the end of the day.—
Deborah Levy,
Harpers Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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Birkin famously sketched her ideal bag on an aeroplane sickness bag and the rest is history.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
23 July 2025
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Her powder of choice was Hourglass, with lips defined by MAC Chestnut liner and glosses from MAC (Oyster Girl) and Milani.—
Larry Stansbury,
Essence,
19 Sep. 2025
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Turning it right side up, some of that water ended up in the (minimal) gap between the removable insulated liner and the exterior shell of the cooler, which then leaked out through seams.—
Adam Campbell-Schmitt,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
18 Sep. 2025
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The line integrates every stage of manufacturing—materials preparation, airframe and component production, testing, and final assembly—maximizing productivity and quality, according to the report.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
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The result is an airframe resembling a flying spindle.—
Kapil Kajal,
Interesting Engineering,
29 Aug. 2025
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At its core is a Marine Air-Ground Task Force centered around the amphibious assault vessel USS Iwo Jima and two San Antonio-class transport ships.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
20 Sep. 2025
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Head coach Brent Pry has since been fired; Philip Montgomery steps in as interim head coach, hoping to steady the ship.—
Kilty Cleary,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 Sep. 2025
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Thomas O'Connor, a retired FBI agent, responded to the Pentagon within 15 minutes of a jetliner slamming into it.—
Nicole Fallert,
USA Today,
11 Sep. 2025
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The United Airlines jetliner went down in Lake Michigan off the Lake Forest shoreline killing 30 passengers and crew.—
Charles Selle,
Chicago Tribune,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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