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airship

[air-ship] / ˈɛərˌʃɪp /


NOUN
balloon
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Unlike some anonymous Polymarket traders, though, the omen named for the doomed German airship couldn’t have known bombs were about to fall on Iran.

From The Wall Street Journal Mar. 11, 2026

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

From MarketWatch Feb. 6, 2026

In the evening, an airship lowered in a medic who confirmed all three deaths.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 3, 2026

By contrast, when Franglen composed the music for the Wind Traders - a nomadic clan of salesmen, who travel by airship - he could let his imagination run wild.

From BBC Dec. 12, 2025

After a long time she relaxed and her wonder at the miraculous airship changed to curiosity.

From "Julie of the Wolves" by Jean Craighead George




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