tarmac
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On Thursday, Hugging Face’s chief executive, Clément Delangue, posted a photo of an airport tarmac to X. “Heading to San Francisco to have a little chat with that ‘rogue agent,’ ” he wrote.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 24, 2026
Another thing that won’t change: Passengers will continue to walk across the tarmac from terminal to stairs to planes, rather than using the enclosed jetways common in other airports, especially larger ones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 8, 2026
This was an era during which “you could just walk onto the tarmac without a ticket,” said Brendan Koerner, author of The Skies Belong to Us.
From Slate ● Jul. 7, 2026
They were standing behind him on the tarmac outside of Air Force One when he said it.
From Salon ● Jul. 3, 2026
He climbed out of the car and looked at the strip of tarmac with thick bush on either side and thought of the people who did so much with so little.
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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