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aeroplane

[air-uh-pleyn] / ˈɛər əˌpleɪn /


NOUN
flying machine
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"This is the blueprint of my life," said the actor, a lifelong aeroplane nut, who narrates the story.

From Barron's May 15, 2026

A 70-year-old man has died after a light aeroplane crash-landed at an airfield near Sherburn in Elmet.

From BBC Nov. 2, 2025

India trialled cloud seeding over its smog-filled capital for the first time, spraying a chemical from an aeroplane to encourage rain and wash deadly particles out of the air.

From Barron's Oct. 24, 2025

Miten Patel's mother and father Ashok and Shobhana Patel died on the Gatwick-bound Air India aeroplane crash in June.

From BBC Aug. 3, 2025

As the Wrights wrote Father, banking had always been a problem for earlier aeronauts who had tried to do that simply by shifting their weight around inside the aeroplane.

From "Dragonwings" by Laurence Yep




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