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airplane

[air-pleyn] / ˈɛərˌpleɪn /
NOUN
vehicle that transports cargo or passengers through the air
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Ohio has offered a piece of fabric from the wings of the airplane built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, the pioneers who made aviation history in 1903 with the first powered, sustained flight.

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

“I think we were getting off the airplane in France and the president said, ‘I want him to do what’s best.

From MarketWatch Jun. 24, 2026

That alternate route can take about two weeks to cross the Atlantic, while a standard container ship would take about nine days, and an airplane would only take eight hours.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 22, 2026

But, he added, “if you take care of an airplane, you can fly them forever, basically.”

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 16, 2026

On the long flight back to Washington, D.C., he stood in the back of his windowless military airplane, arguing about the situation with Bob Komer, one of President Johnson’s aides on Vietnam.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin

Two fixed-wing airplanes arrived on scene rapidly and dropped flame retardant around the perimeter of the blaze, while three helicopters dropped water from above, according to Ventura County Fire spokesperson Andrew Dowd.

From Los Angeles Times Jul. 10, 2026

"Our focus is on delivering two exceptional Air Force One airplanes for the country."

From Barron's Jul. 2, 2026

People celebrated on roofs, on fire escapes, at watch parties in parks and bars, at Radio City Music Hall, atop buses, on the balconies of Times Square hotels, on airplanes and in subway cars.

From Salon Jun. 17, 2026

Many regulations are essential guardrails of safety: minimizing the risk of financial crises, ensuring that our food isn’t harmful, protecting us from airplanes that malfunction, and so forth.

From The Wall Street Journal May 31, 2026

If you’d asked me about Nazi Germany, I would have remembered swastikas on tanks and airplanes from World War II movies.

From "Linked" by Gordon Korman




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