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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
But airplane makers still haven’t kept up with demand.
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
Kenneth Whitaker, then agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami office, boarded the airplane, at about 5:30 a.m.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
For my youngest’s terrible handwriting, that meant aiming for legibility and saving the time that could have gone toward cursive lessons for activities that animate her, such as building boats and airplanes from the contents of the recycling bin.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Zee, 44, shared four photos that appeared to be taken from the airplane's window.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Apr. 2025
Kenneth Whitaker, then agent in charge of the FBI’s Miami office, boarded the airplane, at about 5:30 a.m.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 3 Apr. 2025
For my youngest’s terrible handwriting, that meant aiming for legibility and saving the time that could have gone toward cursive lessons for activities that animate her, such as building boats and airplanes from the contents of the recycling bin.
—Gail Cornwall, The Atlantic, 3 Apr. 2025
Zee, 44, shared four photos that appeared to be taken from the airplane's window.
—Sabienna Bowman, People.com, 2 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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The load included eight suitcases, hat boxes and of course, the dress—which required its own seat on the plane.—
John W. Dean,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 Apr. 2025
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This is in reference to a sequence when one of the Aviva portrayals, by Sharon Wilkins, says that her parents died during one of the September 11 plane crashes.—
Vincent Perella,
IndieWire,
7 Apr. 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 state sponsored a similar meeting last year with Airbus, the manufacturer of commercial airliners.—
Mark Pazniokas,
Hartford Courant,
4 Apr. 2025
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That included the 1983 shooting down of a Korean airliner with 270 people aboard by a Soviet fighter plane, and the deadly 1986 explosion in the Chernobyl nuclear plant, which Soviet authorities denied for several days.—
Fred Weir,
The Christian Science Monitor,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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