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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
The Idaho Department of Fish and Game devised an audacious plan—drop them from airplanes.
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The concept is similar to reflectors on a runway that help guide landing airplanes, and the LRA can operate without the need for power or mechanical control.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Troopers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to the intersection of Triton Beach and Shoreham Beach roads, about five miles southeast of Lee Airport in Edgewater, after receiving reports of an airplane crash.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
The photo is yet another flex from the plane, which has already earned loads of space cred with its ability to deorbit and land back on Earth like a regular airplane.
—New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2025
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Scott Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2025
The concept is similar to reflectors on a runway that help guide landing airplanes, and the LRA can operate without the need for power or mechanical control.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2025
Troopers responded shortly before 4 p.m. to the intersection of Triton Beach and Shoreham Beach roads, about five miles southeast of Lee Airport in Edgewater, after receiving reports of an airplane crash.
—Dan Belson, Baltimore Sun, 24 Feb. 2025
The photo is yet another flex from the plane, which has already earned loads of space cred with its ability to deorbit and land back on Earth like a regular airplane.
—New Atlas, 24 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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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
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New planes’ longer ranges compared with older models are opening up new nonstop routes for carriers.—
Leslie Josephs,
CNBC,
2 Mar. 2025
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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
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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.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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The aircraft is the precursor to the development of Boom’s supersonic commercial airliner, Overture.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN,
3 Mar. 2025
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The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating after several airliners on approach to land at Washington Reagan National Airport Saturday morning received what appear to be false alarms from their onboard Traffic Collision Avoidance System.—
Kris Van Cleave,
CBS News,
3 Mar. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.
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