plane
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Over an alfalfa field in California's San Joaquin Valley, a small crop-spraying plane is flying scarily low to the ground.
From BBC ● Sep. 1, 2026
Police used a robot to defuse the device near a Ukrainian cargo plane.
From Barron's ● Sep. 1, 2026
Perry told People that he even took flying lessons so he could pilot his private plane to the property.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026
I felt like I was stopping the plane in that scene.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026
The plane was flying low, just beneath the bank of clouds.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
On Monday, planned engineering work in the West Midlands will further impact the "very limited" service planed between 08:00 and 18:00 BST, meaning some journeys will take longer.
From BBC ● Aug. 23, 2025
The wood-framed walls and beams were planed to feel as soft to the touch as satin sheets.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 20, 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
Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made had molded him.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
"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
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
The proportion of businesses planing to raise prices fell five points to 49%.
From Reuters ● Jan. 11, 2022
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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