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a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Recent Examples of airplane
Rogue Nation opens with Ethan dangling from an airplane and ups the intensity from there via a globe-trotting plot that takes Ethan from London to Vienna to Casablanca and back again.
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
In the midst of this embarrassment, Peter Alexander, an NBC News journalist, asked Trump about the Pentagon’s acceptance of a four-hundred-million-dollar airplane from Qatar to serve as the new Air Force One.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
In the sweet snaps, Jordan and his daughter can be seen wearing matching sunglasses, sitting together in a boat and flying in an airplane.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 22 May 2025
But according to flight attendants, many travelers are regularly breaking the rules of good airplane behavior, often without even realizing it.
—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 May 2025
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Keith Phipps, Vulture, 23 May 2025
In the midst of this embarrassment, Peter Alexander, an NBC News journalist, asked Trump about the Pentagon’s acceptance of a four-hundred-million-dollar airplane from Qatar to serve as the new Air Force One.
—Susan B. Glasser, New Yorker, 22 May 2025
In the sweet snaps, Jordan and his daughter can be seen wearing matching sunglasses, sitting together in a boat and flying in an airplane.
—Hannah Sacks, People.com, 22 May 2025
But according to flight attendants, many travelers are regularly breaking the rules of good airplane behavior, often without even realizing it.
—Alesandra Dubin, Southern Living, 14 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
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Including the Murphy Canyon crash, there have been six deadly accidents involving planes flying in or out of the Kearny Mesa airport since 2015.—
Lucas Robinson,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
25 May 2025
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However, when there were around four hours left of the journey, the plane had to be diverted to Seattle-Tacoma International Airport due to an onboard incident.—
Latoya Gayle,
People.com,
25 May 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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President Trump has spent the first major overseas trip of his second administration — next stop Wednesday in Qatar — beating back allegations that he was personally profiting from foreign leaders by accepting a $400-million luxury airliner from the gulf state’s royal family.—
Kevin Rector,
Los Angeles Times,
13 May 2025
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At the end of the Vietnam War, South Vietnamese soldiers swarmed a Pan Am airliner to save themselves from the rapidly-advancing North Vietnamese army.—
David Martin,
CBS News,
28 Apr. 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 4 Jun. 2025.
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