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airplane

[air-pleyn] / ˈɛərˌpleɪn /
NOUN
vehicle that transports cargo or passengers through the air
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Now homeless, the Cheungs have moved into a hotel, all of their belongings stored in a bright yellow plastic rolling suitcase small enough to fit into an airplane’s overhead bin.

From The Wall Street Journal

Its underwriters were the first to cover a car—the 1904 policy described the newfangled vehicle as a “ship navigating on land”—an airplane and a satellite.

From The Wall Street Journal

The second season of HBO’s “The Rehearsal” takes aim at the commercial aviation industry, examining barriers to pilot mental health and troubling relationship dynamics in the cockpit that could pose threats to airplane safety.

From The Wall Street Journal

By the mid-1980s, Meyer was wealthy enough to retire, at age 59, to pursue his hobbies, which included flying airplanes and gliders.

From The Wall Street Journal

"Three weeks later they were approved and on an airplane and here with us," she says.

From BBC