Recent Examples on the WebMassive battle royale sequences filled with arachnid-like tanks, plummeting spaceships, lots of explosions, and people popping out of the ground with rocket launchers are cool.—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2024 An electric flying car that looks more like a spaceship from a Terminator movie could be making its first flight by the end of the year.—Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2024 The Quasar stage looks like a cross between an ancient pyramid and a spaceship, featuring a distinct angular design and intricate lights lined up across the entire stage.—Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 13 Apr. 2024 The unmanned spaceship blasted off successfully from the company's base in Boca Chica, Texas, at 8:25 a.m. local time.—Gina Sunseri, ABC News, 14 Mar. 2024 The report points to numerous historical programs conducted by the government that involved experimentation with new forms of aircraft, including spaceships.—Lucas Ropek / Gizmodo, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024 Notre-Dame Cathedral sat in the pre-dawn chill like a spaceship docked in the heart of Paris, its exoskeleton of scaffolding lit by bright lights.—Aurelien Breeden, New York Times, 29 Mar. 2024 Its spiral design suggests a spaceship and drew praise from artist Salvador Dalí and poet Pablo Neruda.—John Otis, NPR, 23 Mar. 2024 In Ravn’s speculative-fiction novel, shortlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize, the isolated human and android employees of a spaceship find solace in the strange scents around them.—Celine Nguyen, The Atlantic, 20 Mar. 2024
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