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plane

[playn] / pleɪn /






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He had booked one-way plane tickets from San Francisco to Saudi Arabia via Istanbul for himself, his wife and their three-month old son on Oct.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

The car, a mashup of a 1970s-era Lotus Esprit and the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane, has an electric drivetrain that can do 0 to 60 mph in 0.8 seconds.

From Slate ● Oct. 19, 2026

He and a 16-year-old boy died when their plane came down near Loch Lomond.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

A small plane carrying three people, one a child, nosedived into San Jose traffic on Saturday afternoon, according to local news reports.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 18, 2026

There wasn’t even a message scrolling across the LCD sign behind the counter to indicate that the plane had arrived or where it’d come from.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

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

In the past few days, we slurped frilly Shanxi planed noodles in this spicy sesame chile oil number.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 19, 2023

From the age of three it has been planed and polished, pared down, harnessed wholly to the task of storytelling.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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

"Everybody is frustrated that we didn't get long planing runs," Carroll said on the slipway as Bluebird was towed back into the engineering tent for the final time.

From BBC ● May 17, 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

But children 16 and older can work in Wisconsin planing mills like the Florence Hardwoods facility where Shuls was pinned.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 8, 2023

Then with a planing tool, he carefully smoothed away the surface of the design so that the colored clay was completely level with the body of the vase itself.

From "A Single Shard" by Linda Sue Park


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