: a warship with a flight deck on which aircraft can be launched and landed
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More than 2,000 navy and aircraft carrier construction personnel looked on from stands along the dock as Xi joined an honor guard in a flag ceremony for the commissioning, which took place Wednesday afternoon.—Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 7 Nov. 2025 Chinese warships now outnumber US ones, although the US operates more aircraft carriers, which are vital ways of projecting power overseas.—Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 Nov. 2025 The system successfully handled both open-area and shielded oil fires, including those likely to occur on aircraft carriers.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 6 Nov. 2025 The administration keeps portraying its actions as part of a counternarcotics operation—ostensibly the first such operation in history to require the use of an aircraft carrier.—Quico Toro, The Atlantic, 4 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for aircraft carrier
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