air-cushion vehicle

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Recent Examples of air-cushion vehicle That's what an air-cushion vehicle rides on. Wallace Cloud, Popular Mechanics, 25 Feb. 2021
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Noun
  • In other economic news Thursday, orders for long-lasting goods such as aircraft, appliances and computers unexpectedly jumped 3.1% in January, a potential sign of attempts to make big-ticket purchases ahead of an acceleration in tariffs.
    Jeff Cox, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The number of deaths aboard aircraft in the United States is also on the decline.
    Melissa Chan, NBC News, 27 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • In 1967: Israeli fighter jets and torpedo boats attacked allies on the USS Liberty, a U.S. Navy research ship collecting intelligence near the Sinai Peninsula, amid the Six-Day War between Israel and neighboring Arab nations Egypt, Syria and Jordan.
    The Arizona Republic, The Arizona Republic, 7 June 2024
  • In the late nineteenth century, for instance, France’s navy sought to counter British naval supremacy by investing heavily in submarines and torpedo boats.
    Julia Ciocca, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2021
Noun
  • Lilium also worked with an aircraft brokerage firm in Texas last year to try and make its $10 million aircraft the first-ever air taxi sold in the US.
    Umar Shakir, The Verge, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The company has been making deals to sell its aircraft to air taxi services in crowded urban markets like Japan as well as to defense customers such as the U.S. Air Force.
    Katie Fehrenbacher, Axios, 11 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • That helps account for the dutiful but often grim tone of the film, in which a pair of Navy men (Wayne, Robert Montgomery) try to convince the higher-ups that their small, maneuverable PT boats have a place in battles others believe will be dominated by larger vessels.
    Keith Phipps, Vulture, 26 May 2024
  • Kennedy’s brother John led a PT boat in the South Pacific and his brother Joseph Jr. piloted a plane in Europe, where he was killed in action.
    Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2023
Noun
  • And we are not finished’: Buffett wrote in his letter to investors, describing Berkshire’s reinvestment strategy STRATEGIES + ADVICE In times of crisis, business leaders need to quickly be able to cope and right the ship.
    Megan Poinski, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
  • To be sure, Nvidia could right the momentum ship this week.
    Fred Imbert, CNBC, 25 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • Once travelers get to New Orleans, they’ll be greeted with plenty of amazing places to stay, incredible food, and fun things to do from riding a streetcar to a swamp airboat tour, taking a ghost tour and more ahead of the big game.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Del Rey and Jeremy Dufrene, a captain of an airboat tour company, were filmed holding hands at the Reading Festival in England.
    Lauryn Overhultz, Fox News, 29 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Unanswered questions after Delta plane crash Investigators are working to identify why a Delta Air Lines regional jet coming from Minnesota flipped on its roof during landing at Canada's Toronto Pearson International Airport.
    Rebecca Morin, USA TODAY, 19 Feb. 2025
  • Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash UCF cracks down on resale of football season tickets on secondary market West Colonial is one of Orlando’s ugliest streets.
    Silas Morgan, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • This kart racing game took some big swings, with the ability to drive a car, hovercraft, or airplane, a story mode, and some fantastic multiplayer modes.
    George Monastiriakos, Newsweek, 30 Dec. 2024
  • The group also deployed a hovercraft to Nashville and a K-9 search unit is en route.
    Tyler Palmateer, The Tennessean, 20 Mar. 2024

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“Air-cushion vehicle.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/air-cushion%20vehicle. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.

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