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spaceship

[spays-ship] / ˈspeɪsˌʃɪp /






NOUN
unidentified flying object
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George Lucas and Mellody Hobson want their massive spaceship of a museum to be an experience.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

That’s impressive given that, by Musk’s own math, something in the order of $1 trillion is required to colonize Mars—if he can finally get the company’s delayed, giant spaceship working.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 9, 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

Doctor Who first launched in 1963, and follows the adventures of an eccentric Time Lord who travels in a spaceship larger on the inside, that disguises itself as a 1960s British police box.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

The satellite dish on top of the garage came crashing down, and lounged on the driveway like a visiting alien spaceship.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

One of SpaceX’s Starship spaceships exploded during a ground test last June.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 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

Nominally designed as a spaceport, Lego aliens and spaceships populate the area.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 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

In the midst of the presses stood the sleeve machine, looking like twin silver spaceships.

From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston




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