as in airport
a place from which aircraft operate that usually has paved runways and a terminal
the passenger jet made an emergency landing at an abandoned airfield
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Some of the other exhibits include beacons and airfield lights originally used by the airport, military aviation education, the North Carolina Air National Guard at CLT and famous aviators who performed at airshows in the Charlotte area.
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Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025
The facility sits on a 39-square mile vacant airfield with a roughly 11,000 foot runway.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 25 June 2025
The latest barrage comes after Ukraine launched audacious raids on airfields deep inside Russia last weekend.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
The statement said coordinated operations by Kyiv and its allies were behind attacks on railways in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk regions, as well as Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian airfields on June 1, dubbed Operation Spiderweb.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
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Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 26 June 2025
The facility sits on a 39-square mile vacant airfield with a roughly 11,000 foot runway.
—Melina Khan, USA Today, 25 June 2025
The latest barrage comes after Ukraine launched audacious raids on airfields deep inside Russia last weekend.
—Jade Walker, CNN Money, 6 June 2025
The statement said coordinated operations by Kyiv and its allies were behind attacks on railways in Russia's Bryansk and Kursk regions, as well as Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian airfields on June 1, dubbed Operation Spiderweb.
—Brendan Cole, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airfield
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Environmental concerns have long hampered plans to expand the airport, as efforts to preserve the marshlands, which are a crucial source of freshwater for South Florida, have routinely clashed with business interests.—
Chelsea Bailey,
CNN Money,
1 July 2025
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Such tactics have worked in the past: The Dade-Collier facility was envisioned as the largest airport in the world before protests and an environmental review convinced the government to stop work on the site in 1970.—
Rachel Treisman,
NPR,
1 July 2025
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Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long-range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.—
Trudy Rubin,
Twin Cities,
8 June 2025
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Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.—
Trudy Rubin,
Mercury News,
7 June 2025
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The network of trailers and tents, built on an airstrip off of U.S. Highway 41, has been operating for a little more than a week.—
Ana Ceballos,
The Orlando Sentinel,
13 July 2025
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The DeSantis administration has not made public a list of names of the immigrants held at the facility in heavy duty tents at an airstrip in the Florida Everglades.—
Ana Ceballos,
Miami Herald,
13 July 2025
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“Airfield.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airfield. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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