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aircraft

noun as in airplane

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The mood music among the military is that investing more in huge, astronomically expensive vessels like aircraft carriers is risky when they could be taken out by new weaponry like hypersonic missiles or drone ships.

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Vice-President JD Vance flew to Salt Lake City, Utah, on Thursday to retrieve Kirk's casket and transport it to Phoenix, Arizona - where Kirk's family lives - on the vice-presidential aircraft, Air Force Two.

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Although there have been no plane crashes in Nigeria for several years, there have been cases of aircraft overshooting the runway and tyres bursting during landing.

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The report included decision-making and judgment, the monitoring of the other aircraft, and altitude among its findings for the crash’s probable cause.

At the same time, the more than 1,000-mile distance between Israel and Qatar means Israeli warplanes flew over multiple Arab countries, almost all of them with U.S. bases presumably able to detect incoming aircraft.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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