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a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Recent Examples of airplane
Nearly 3,000 people were killed in New York City, Washington, DC, and outside of Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after 19 al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four US commercial airplanes bound for West Coast destinations.
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Their work promises smaller, faster, and more affordable chips used in everything from smartphones to airplanes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Almost 25 years after 9/11, there are still major security risks on airplanes without secondary cockpit barriers.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Perhaps the easiest was an airplane flying overhead.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Alexandra Banner, CNN Money, 11 Sep. 2025
Their work promises smaller, faster, and more affordable chips used in everything from smartphones to airplanes.
—Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 11 Sep. 2025
Almost 25 years after 9/11, there are still major security risks on airplanes without secondary cockpit barriers.
—Rick Sobey, Boston Herald, 11 Sep. 2025
Perhaps the easiest was an airplane flying overhead.
—Nola Taylor Tillman, Space.com, 10 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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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
Noun
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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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The unanticipated additional crew members sometimes made for tight sleeping quarters in the space station, which Williams describes as about the size of an airliner inside.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
13 Sep. 2025
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There were 135 passengers and seven crew onboard the airliner.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 21 Sep. 2025.
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