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plane

[playn] / pleɪn /






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Leo will be greeted by Milei at the foot of his plane when he arrives on Sunday from Uruguay.

From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026

"The passengers were evacuated and the plane underwent security checks. Nothing was found," Modlin airport spokesman Adam Szablowski told AFP.

From Barron's ● Nov. 3, 2026

As the plane flew over Florida’s east coast, a thunderstorm was growing in intensity.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 2026

BBC Verify has consulted aviation safety experts about what happens on board a plane when a bomb threat is issued.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

“I couldn’t be more scared jumping out of a plane than staying in.”

From "Nim’s Island" by Wendy Orr

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

Lee, with her sharply planed and expressive features, capable of shifting from wonderment to skepticism in a heartbeat, suggests the learned assurance of someone very comfortable with change.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 1, 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

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

They also offer bespoke milling and planing services, ideal for those who have to chop down a favorite childhood tree, but aren’t quite ready to let go.

From Seattle Times ● May 5, 2023

Open, where she was upset in the third round by Leylah Fernandez and explained that she was struggling to take pleasure in the game and was planing to take a break from competition.

From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 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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