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zeppelin

[zep-uh-lin] / ˈzɛp ə lɪn /


NOUN
balloon
Synonyms
NOUN
blimp
Synonyms


NOUN
dirigible
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The zeppelin design, which placed individual gas-filled containers within a rigidly framed outer envelope, was invented around the turn of the 20th century by Ferdinand von Zeppelin, a German aristocrat and general.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

In groundbreaking work published last year, the Harvard team deduced that the stellar halo is tilted and elliptical in shape, like a zeppelin or football.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 10, 2023

And Harper asks viewers to hurt themselves suspending their disbelief, most notably in an action sequence where Rachel jumps out of a plane and lands on a zeppelin called The Locker.

From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2023

Any mention of hydrogen aircraft means addressing the zeppelin in the room.

From New York Times ● Nov. 15, 2021

Besides, the cables, the pylons, the transformers were too close: to be swept in among them, with a zeppelin full of inflammable gas, would be instantly fatal.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman

Today the slow-moving, sausage-shaped crafts called zeppelins might seem hopelessly antiquated, but in the mid-1930s they soared at the pinnacle of technology and modernity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

The German military utilized zeppelins as early as 1915 to fly to London and bomb the city.

From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022

In Scotland it became useful as a reconnaissance plane to protect the Forth coastline and Rosyth dockyard against German zeppelins.

From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2022

A museum devoted to zeppelins, plus an actual zeppelin high in the sky.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 24, 2022

Iorek, in his armor, was somewhere close by, waiting to hold off the soldiers from the zeppelins so as to give Will enough time to work.

From "The Amber Spyglass" by Philip Pullman


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