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Recent Examples of aerial
These orchids produce flower spikes, leaves, and aerial roots from a single growth point on their stems.
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
Afterward, aerial photos showed the first residence still intact, but the neighbor’s home was rubble and ash.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
The region uses 12 aerial firefighting vehicles.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Organizers used a variety of methods to estimate attendance at the protests, including aerial photography analysis, calculations based on crowd density and police counts.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
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Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 23 Oct. 2025
Afterward, aerial photos showed the first residence still intact, but the neighbor’s home was rubble and ash.
—Ingfei Chen, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
The region uses 12 aerial firefighting vehicles.
—City News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2025
Organizers used a variety of methods to estimate attendance at the protests, including aerial photography analysis, calculations based on crowd density and police counts.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 21 Oct. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for aerial
vertical
Adjective
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The Axisymmetric Vectoring Exhaust Nozzle (AVEN) provides thrust vectoring capability for X-BAT’s vertical takeoff and landing maneuverability.—
Chris Young,
Interesting Engineering,
6 Nov. 2025
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Located in its app, the Watch tab now features a feed of vertical video stories, though they are editorially curated rather than algorithmically fed, at least for now.—
Alex Weprin,
HollywoodReporter,
6 Nov. 2025
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“Aerial.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/aerial. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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