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Recent Examples of airliner
Minutes after takeoff, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps fired two surface-to-air missiles at the civilian airliner, killing everyone aboard.
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Nuri Kino, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 June 2025
The airliner is the kit sponsor of some of the most prominent soccer clubs in the world—Arsenal, AC Milan, Real Madrid, Olympique Lyonnais and Benfica—and is the title sponsor of England’s FA Cup.
—Jason Clinkscales, Sportico.com, 19 June 2025
The small upturned tips of each wing are called winglets, and although they weren’t added to the big airliners until the late 1980s, they were invented more than a century earlier.
—Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025
Boeing has been working on retrofitting 747s that were originally built for a now-defunct Russian airliner.
—Chris Megerian, Chicago Tribune, 12 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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This phone mount can attach to almost anything—an airplane tray table, your luggage handle, a desk, and more.—
Jasmine Gomez,
Travel + Leisure,
13 July 2025
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The media industry is far from the days when coaches welcomed an airplane full of sportswriters for a promotional tour half a century ago.—
Chris Vannini,
New York Times,
11 July 2025
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This revolutionary new self-landing system is being installed in some private planes.—
Maureen O'Hare,
CNN Money,
12 July 2025
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Even Kennedy was pictured holding what looked like a Big Mac while seated at a table with Trump and his inner circle on his private plane last November, right after Trump's re-election in November.—
Swapna Venugopal Ramaswamy,
USA Today,
12 July 2025
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The Bangladesh Army’s public relations office confirmed that the jet that crashed was a F-7 BGI aircraft belonging to the Air Force, per the AP.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
21 July 2025
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According to the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), a Bangladesh Air Force F-7 BGI training aircraft crashed in Uttara.—
Shane Croucher
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
21 July 2025
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It is inspired by the extraordinary real-life story of Mathias Rust, a young West German teenager in 1987 who shocked the world by flying through Soviet air defences and landed a Cessna aeroplane right in the middle of the Red Square.—
Annika Pham,
Variety,
27 Jan. 2025
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This is especially true with the lower circulating oxygen levels on an aeroplane, in people with breathing problems or when combined with alcohol.—
Brian Dillon,
Newsweek,
20 Dec. 2024
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The 794-foot liner, the biggest in The Ritz-Carlton Yacht Collection’s fleet, accommodates 452 passengers in 226 suites.—
Spencer Whaley,
Forbes.com,
10 July 2025
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Fill a sachet with baby powder and tuck it in a drawer or on a closet shelf, or sprinkle the powder directly on the bottom of the drawer, then cover with liners to protect clothing.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
7 July 2025
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This can be so severe that the US Civil Air Administration once built a chicken gun that used compressed air to fire bird carcasses at airframes to simulate avian impacts.—
New Atlas,
New Atlas,
9 July 2025
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Through the use of a long, narrow airframe and canards, the X-59 is able to reduce the noise that reaches the ground from sonic booms generated as the aircraft crosses the speed of sound.—
Robert Z. Pearlman,
Space.com,
20 May 2025
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The company aimed to land New Glenn's first stage on a ship at sea as well but failed in the attempt.—
Mike Wall,
Space.com,
19 July 2025
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With half of the residences already reserved, the ship is scheduled to be completed in 2029.—
Michael Verdon,
Robb Report,
19 July 2025
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The jetliner heading to Nairobi lost control shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa Bole International Airport and nose-dived into a barren patch of land.—
arkansasonline.com,
arkansasonline.com,
13 July 2025
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Families of victims of Boing 737 Max crashes are speaking out after the Justice Department reached a deal Friday that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people.—
Jesus Mesa
Gabe Whisnant,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 May 2025
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 24 Jul. 2025.
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