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airship

[air-ship] / ˈɛərˌʃɪp /


NOUN
balloon
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After the mooring lines were dropped, passengers and crew heard a faint bang and felt a shudder deep within the airship, which was at that point well more than 100 feet in the air.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

One reportedly failed mid-flight, with the other shot down by a US airship.

From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2026

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

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 6, 2026

American Walter Wellman was the first to try to reach the North Pole by airship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 28, 2024

“They said I was—they said they—they said Lord Asriel put me there because my mother and father died in an airship accident. That’s what they told me.”

From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman


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