the tarmac

noun

: the area covered by pavement at an airport

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Two hours before dawn, a small blue Cessna touched down on the tarmac. Rachel Monroe, New Yorker, 16 Oct. 2025 Netanyahu welcomes Trump on the tarmac this morning. Yamiche Alcindor, NBC news, 14 Oct. 2025 Denver actually beat its opponents to the tarmac. Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025 As the evening continued, delays mounted as flights were cleared to land but planes waiting to take off were stuck on the tarmac. Dalia Faheid, CNN Money, 8 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for the tarmac

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“The tarmac.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20tarmac. Accessed 21 Oct. 2025.

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