plane
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An early critic compared Salon to an old-fashioned airship, richly appointed and comfortable but more slow-moving than an actual plane.
From Slate ● Nov. 6, 2026
The C-130 Hercules plane left the Indonesian capital Jakarta for East Kalimantan province on Thursday to join local water-bombing efforts, the Indonesian disaster agency chief said.
From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2026
Prosecutors previously alleged Alfozan booked one-way plane tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for himself, his wife and their newborn son departing on Oct.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026
The distance indicates that part of the aircraft separated before the plane hit the ground, according to federal investigators.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026
He gasped as the plane lurched forward, ready for takeoff.
From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova
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Over the following months the wood is cut, settled, rounded, spliced, planed, fitted with a brass tip and leather pad, sanded in nine different ways, oiled, and finally waxed, before being complete.
From BBC ● May 2, 2025
Through six editions now, their clear, planed prose has proved an essential reference for Angelenos in search of all the treasures that bejewel L.A.’s rumpled topography.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
Every time we managed to summit a dune, following a sand ridge perfectly planed by the wind and sinking with each step, another beckoned us ahead.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2023
“What’s different about these is that they’ve planed the face, and you can see the different pieces of aggregate, the stone used to make the blocks, when you’re up close,” she says.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 21, 2022
He’d cut and planed a new plank for over the ditch too.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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The committee set aside $21.5 million for “hybrid composite structures research for enhanced mobility,” “electric propulsion for military craft and advanced planing hulls” and a “test bed for autonomous ship systems.”
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
Garfield is goodness personified; we meet him on his farm, cooking breakfast for the family, planing wood to make a picnic table.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2025
The process typically involves painstakingly planing the organisms off the boat, before processing waste through a complex filtration system.
From New York Times ● Jan. 2, 2023
The firm processes the timber on three planing lines at the port run by 47 people.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2021
I could hear the Great American Gelding snoring away like a planing mill.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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