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aeroplane

[air-uh-playn] / ˈɛər əˌpleɪn /


NOUN
flying machine
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At RAF Upper Heyford, firefighters would practice putting out an aeroplane set on fire above a "pond" of fuel.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2026

Produced since 1988, the A320 is the world's best-selling aeroplane.

From Barron's ● Nov. 29, 2025

He says: "I thought about it, I spoke to the wife and said do you mind if I go and play on an aeroplane? That was four years ago."

From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2025

India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air.

From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2025

As the Wrights wrote Father, banking had always been a problem for earlier aeronauts who had tried to do that simply by shifting their weight around inside the aeroplane.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep


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