—used for a bituminous binder for roads
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Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 22 May 2025
The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
This marks a rise from 289 tarmac delays on domestic flights and 35 tarmac delays on international flights in 2023.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
The promise of copious amounts of profitable new airlines, meanwhile, evaporated like jet fuel on a hot tarmac.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
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Noun
Airlines experienced 437 tarmac delays of three hours or more on domestic flights.
—Lauren Penington, Denver Post, 22 May 2025
The road south from Khartoum was a black tarmac strip through flat scrubland.
—Nicolas Niarchos, New Yorker, 19 May 2025
This marks a rise from 289 tarmac delays on domestic flights and 35 tarmac delays on international flights in 2023.
—Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
The promise of copious amounts of profitable new airlines, meanwhile, evaporated like jet fuel on a hot tarmac.
—Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
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“Tarmac.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tarmac. Accessed 29 May. 2025.
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tarmac
noun
tar·mac
ˈtär-ˌmak 
: a road, apron, or runway paved with layers of crushed stone covered with tar
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