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as in air park

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The test, conducted at the Alamogordo air base, was the culmination of the Manhattan Project, the classified American effort to build an atom bomb—before Nazi Germany could do the same. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 10 July 2026 German media reports say Kaufbeuren will host the system’s radar installation, while the interceptor launchers for the battery are expected to be stationed at the nearby Lechfeld air base. — Bojan Stojkovski, Interesting Engineering, 5 July 2026

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An American airbase in the country was hit by Iranian missiles as part of the twelve-day war last June, in which America and Israel attacked Iran, and then Qatar was also hit by Israel later that year, when the Israelis targeted Hamas leaders in Doha. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2026 Iran’s retaliatory strikes have since targeted Gulf nations and also a British airbase in Cyprus. — Tiago Ventura, Time, 6 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for air base

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The airport says arrivals to Denver are also delayed an average of 15 minutes and increasing due to the weather.

— Christa Swanson, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
This matching set from Amazon does exactly that, featuring a flattering high neckline and breezy cropped pants that are polished enough to wear straight from the airport to your destination.

— Julia Morlino, Travel + Leisure, 1 Aug. 2026

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Now an Oda envoy and renowned strategist named Kanbei Kuroda (Masaki Suda) has come to Murashige’s fortress to convince him that resistance is futile.

— Justin Chang, New Yorker, 30 July 2026
Someone or something keeps trying to break into the fortress-like building and find something.

— David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2026

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The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.

— Anne Kadet, Curbed, 19 June 2026
An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.

— Michael Helbing, The Conversation, 11 June 2026

Definition of heliport

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Veteran wide receiver, Darius Slayton interestingly said Harbaugh already has been confronting players in a constructive way to reinforce accountability across the board in the first few days of training camp here in West Virginia.

— Pat Leonard, New York Daily News, 3 Aug. 2026
As Scott Frost took to the practice field Monday to open UCF’s preseason football camp, construction workers a few hundred yards away busily put the finishing touches on the Roth Tower expansion at the Acrisure Bounce House Stadium.

— Matt Murschel, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Aug. 2026

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The airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.

— Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 12 May 2026
Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands.

— CHRISTINA MAYO, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025

Definition of jetport

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Trump pointed out the helipad and ballroom that are under construction on the White House grounds.

— Adam Kilgore, New York Times, 24 July 2026
Construction is underway at the White House on a new helipad, ballroom, fortification of the front door and repairs to stone columns, while the Kennedy Center is still controversially draped in tarps as workers repair the marble facade.

— Conor Murray, Forbes.com, 20 July 2026

Definition of helipad

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Last year, the beauty and pharmacy giant also began trialing stand-alone fragrance stores, the first of which opened near the high-traffic Liverpool Street station.

— Samantha Conti, Footwear News, 4 Aug. 2026
Located a stone’s throw from the train station and at the nexus of historic neighborhoods—Recoleta, San Telmo, Puerto Madero—the hotel provides prime positioning for experiencing the city's rhythm.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 Aug. 2026

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