as in plane
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
Dispatchers received a report of a missing airplane from the U.S. Department of Transportation Aero Division at 1:41 p.m. Friday, July 18, the Gallatin County Sheriff’s Office said in a July 21 news release.
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025
It's understood to be the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 21 July 2025
This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.
—Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
The media industry is far from the days when coaches welcomed an airplane full of sportswriters for a promotional tour half a century ago.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 22 July 2025
It's understood to be the deadliest airplane crash in the Bangladeshi capital in recent memory.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 21 July 2025
This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.
—Jasmine Gomez, Travel + Leisure, 13 July 2025
The media industry is far from the days when coaches welcomed an airplane full of sportswriters for a promotional tour half a century ago.
—Chris Vannini, New York Times, 11 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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In 1943: Operation Gomorrah began as British and U.S. planes bombed the city of Hamburg, Germany, day and night.—
DAILY BRIEFING,
AZCentral.com,
25 July 2025
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Once the plane landed in Phoenix, Ed gave Perreault his business card but Perreault didn't have one to give him in return.—
Ashlyn Robinette,
People.com,
24 July 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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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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ATCs are under particular scrutiny after January’s crash in the US capital between an airliner and a military helicopter, which killed 67: Experts believe human error played a role.—
semafor.com,
semafor.com,
11 July 2025
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All 379 people aboard the JAL plane, an Airbus A350-900 flight, escaped the burning airliner.—
Zach Wichter,
USA Today,
12 June 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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