airliner

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Recent Examples of airliner Authorities have been able to identify 55 sets of remains and are continuing to recover the fuselage of the commercial airliner from the Potomac. Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 4 Feb. 2025 That’s about double the speed that current commercial airliners fly. Jackie Snow, Quartz, 18 Feb. 2025 There had previously been no deadly plane crash involving a U.S. airliner since 2009. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 13 Feb. 2025 If successful, Overture could become the first commercial supersonic airliner since the Concorde, a Mach 2 aircraft developed in the 1960s by the British Aircraft Corporation and France’s Sud Aviation. IEEE Spectrum, 8 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for airliner
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Noun
  • North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) was forced to scramble fighter jets three times over President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in South Florida on Saturday after airplanes violated restricted airspace.
    Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 3 Mar. 2025
  • This decline may very well have been exacerbated by another airplane crash in November 2001.
    Harry Enten, CNN, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Whether traveling by train, bus, plane, or car, this mini purifier will help clean the air around you and your little ones.
    Ramona Saviss, Travel + Leisure, 2 Mar. 2025
  • New planes’ longer ranges compared with older models are opening up new nonstop routes for carriers.
    Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 2 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • This took more than 1,000 new aircraft out of service for the better part of two years.
    Oliver Wyman, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
  • In other economic news Thursday, orders for long-lasting goods such as aircraft, appliances and computers unexpectedly jumped 3.1% in January, a potential sign of attempts to make big-ticket purchases ahead of an acceleration in tariffs.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.
    Annika Pham, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.
    Brian Dillon, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Get ready to use your Terrible Towel to dry off after a refreshing dip in an ocean liner's pool, because the official Steelers fan cruise has arrived.
    Ryan Deto, Axios, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Prepare your muffin pan by lining with paper liners.
    Angelica Stabile, Fox News, 23 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That work is usually divided into three categories, covering the airframe — or body, wings and tail of a plane — the engine and various other components.
    Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
  • Labor accounts for most of the cost of airframe maintenance, so airlines in wealthier countries often send that work to countries where wages are lower.
    Niraj Chokshi, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • In separate raids on Crimean anchorages in February, May and June 2024, the USVs sank a corvette, a landing ship, a patrol boat and a tugboat.
    David Axe, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2025
  • The service tallied 296 battle force ships (aircraft carriers, submarines, surface combatants, amphibious ships, and logistics and support ships) in December.
    Colin Demarest, Axios, 8 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The deadliest crash in recent history happened on January 29, when a commercial jetliner and an Army helicopter collided in Washington D.C., killing 67 people.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 18 Feb. 2025
  • A day after a jetliner flipped moments after landing in Toronto, what was left of the aircraft remained upside down on Tuesday, its right wing and tail sheared off and the wreckage blocking the two longest runways at Canada’s busiest airport.
    Vjosa Isai, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025

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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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