: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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Imagery captured by the ESA's Sentinel-2 satellites on September 11, 2025, shows the Chinese aircraft carrier CNS Fujian, top, and operating alongside two escorts in the East China Sea.—Ryan Chan, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025 Designed for catapult launches and carrier deck operations, the stealth jet significantly expands the strike capability of China’s aircraft carriers, particularly the new Fujian.—Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025 For his part, Law, who will premiere his own film this week, provided an excellently convincing argument in the fiery northern Mediterranean man-fashion white-dinner-jacket debate that a double-breasted’s peaked lapels should each properly be the dimension of an aircraft carrier deck.—Guy Martin, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025 Ballard went on to discover several other storied wrecks: the Nazi warship Bismark, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and PT-109, a Navy vessel commanded by President John F. Kennedy in his mid-20s during World War II.—Katie Hunt, CNN Money, 31 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
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