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spaceship

[spays-ship] / ˈspeɪsˌʃɪp /






NOUN
unidentified flying object
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"It sits almost like a spaceship inside this extraordinary great Victorian Hall with all the pillars so already you have this tension," said Selina Cartmell, the theatre's creative director.

From BBC ● Sep. 18, 2026

Take a seat on a curvaceous wooden bench and imagine you’re captaining a spaceship.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

Weir and a small crew are sent on a recovery mission after the lost spaceship, the Event Horizon, suddenly reappears in orbit around Neptune, issuing a distress signal.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

The spaceship traveled a little more than 62 miles above California’s Mojave Desert, as thousands of people watched from the ground.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 15, 2026

For a few disorienting seconds, I thought I was still on the spaceship.

From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson

A self-affirming visionary who wanted to bring hope to people, White mixed journaling with talk of spaceships and metaphysics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

That money is definitely needed to get the company’s giant spaceships working and build out expensive data centers needed for artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 24, 2026

The restart of commercial missions with a mothership and two Delta spaceships opens up the potential for $450 million in annual revenue across 125 flights, analysts at Jefferies said.

From Barron's ● Apr. 6, 2026

The spaceships of the future—the ones we imagine, or design on paper—have the signature feature of never blowing up.

From Slate ● Dec. 9, 2025

Or those science-fiction bay doors on spaceships with air locks.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King




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