—used for a bituminous binder for roads
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Peter Nelson, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
Two days after two planes collided on an Atlanta tarmac, a crisis was averted after the pilot of an Alaska Airlines flight in Tennessee pumped the brakes while attempting to take off from Nashville International Airport (BNA) and narrowly avoided a potential collision with another plane.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2024
His request for assistance to get back to the nearby tarmac and potentially rejoin the session proved futile.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
Among the gaggle of prisoners greeted on the Moscow tarmac by Putin on August 1 was Pablo González Yagüe, born Pavel Rubtsov, an operative with Russia's main intelligence directorate (GRU) who had posed as a Spanish journalist.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
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Noun
Thrilling yet thrifty With ample clear tarmac ahead of me atop SoCal’s Angeles National Forest, the 2025 McLaren Artura was phenomenal.
—Peter Nelson, The Verge, 23 Dec. 2024
Two days after two planes collided on an Atlanta tarmac, a crisis was averted after the pilot of an Alaska Airlines flight in Tennessee pumped the brakes while attempting to take off from Nashville International Airport (BNA) and narrowly avoided a potential collision with another plane.
—Stepheny Price, Fox News, 12 Sep. 2024
His request for assistance to get back to the nearby tarmac and potentially rejoin the session proved futile.
—Luke Smith, The Athletic, 6 July 2024
Among the gaggle of prisoners greeted on the Moscow tarmac by Putin on August 1 was Pablo González Yagüe, born Pavel Rubtsov, an operative with Russia's main intelligence directorate (GRU) who had posed as a Spanish journalist.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 1 Dec. 2024
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“Tarmac.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarmac. Accessed 4 Jan. 2025.
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tarmac
noun
tar·mac
ˈtär-ˌmak 
: a road, apron, or runway paved with layers of crushed stone covered with tar
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