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airship

[air-ship] / ˈɛərˌʃɪp /


NOUN
balloon
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Nearly a century after the crash of the Hindenburg airship, the images of towering flames and mangled metal haven’t lost their power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The indicator is named after the German passenger airship that was involved in a historic disaster in 1937.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

An airship crashes into the ocean with three golfers apparently oblivious as they hole out on a seaside course.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2025

Celmins’ 1968 drawings of old black-and-white photographs torn from history books — a 1930s zeppelin airship, Hiroshima’s nearly obliterated 1945 landscape — begin with a sheet of paper prepared with a ground of snow-white acrylic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

Time and again, Roz had dreamed of flying back to her island in an airship.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown




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