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Recent Examples of airliner
In 1976, Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch, two Cuban exiles, planned the bombing of a Cuban civilian airliner near Barbados that killed all 73 people aboard.
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Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Sunday night, as the airliner bearing the Algerian national team arrived at Kansas City International Airport, a healthy June rain began to fall.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
Baptising a whole airliner, a 100-vehicle convoy and a team-bonding meal in an empty stadium… World Cup teams have been enjoying some memorable send-offs in the past week.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 4 June 2026
The airliner returned to the skies because the NTSB determined that maintenance workers damaged the plane that crashed while improperly using a forklift to reattach the engine.
—ABC News, 18 May 2026
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Kevin A. Young, The Conversation, 8 June 2026
Sunday night, as the airliner bearing the Algerian national team arrived at Kansas City International Airport, a healthy June rain began to fall.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 8 June 2026
Baptising a whole airliner, a 100-vehicle convoy and a team-bonding meal in an empty stadium… World Cup teams have been enjoying some memorable send-offs in the past week.
—Greg O'Keeffe, New York Times, 4 June 2026
The airliner returned to the skies because the NTSB determined that maintenance workers damaged the plane that crashed while improperly using a forklift to reattach the engine.
—ABC News, 18 May 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airliner
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The report said witnesses claimed that the airplane lost some altitude before regaining it, then flew at treetop height and turned to the right before disappearing from their view.—
Ben Wheeler,
Kansas City Star,
16 June 2026
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Dayton, Ohio, home to the Wright Brothers' first airplane factory, is now the site for new electric air taxi manufacturing.—
Randy Tucker,
USA Today,
15 June 2026
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Video shared by a witness from the scene showed emergency responders attempting to crack open the plane’s windshield as authorities and bystanders assisted several people out of the burning aircraft.—
Diego Mendoza,
CNN Money,
17 June 2026
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The conditions of those aboard the plane were not immediately known.—
Landon Mion,
FOXNews.com,
17 June 2026
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The aircraft has kept a vital spot in the Air Force for two main reasons, Birkey said.—
Los Angeles Times,
Los Angeles Times,
19 June 2026
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The system focuses on detecting and identifying Class 1 drones, which are among the smallest categories of military and commercial unmanned aircraft.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
18 June 2026
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The occasional booing of famous England players has been an integral part of the Wembley experience over the years, almost as commonplace as paper aeroplanes.—
Jack Pitt-Brooke,
New York Times,
28 Mar. 2026
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No distractions, no aeroplanes, no noise, no traffic.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
4 Feb. 2026
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With the fourth pick, expansion San Jose chose Badgers blue liner Laila Edwards, and Gophers defender Nellie Latinen was picked seventh overall by Hamilton.—
Theodore Tollefson,
Twin Cities,
17 June 2026
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Goldschmidt capped New York's big inning with a three-run drive into the right-field seats off reliever Tyler Davis, who entered after Sean Newcomb took a liner hit by Anthony Volpe off his left triceps.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
17 June 2026
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Developmental testing is first carried out by test pilots to verify the airframe's structural integrity, aerodynamic characteristics, performance, and engineering systems.—
David Szondy
June 15,
New Atlas,
15 June 2026
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This test helped validate the performance of the missile’s airframe, propulsion, navigation, and autopilot subsystems.—
Aditya Jadhav,
Interesting Engineering,
3 June 2026
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Earlier this week, Kpler estimated around 220 tankers and 500 ships were stranded in the Persian Gulf.—
Lou Robinson,
CNN Money,
19 June 2026
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Mach Industries has won a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) contract to develop a long-range unmanned aircraft designed to launch from austere locations and ships without large flight decks.—
Neetika Walter,
Interesting Engineering,
18 June 2026
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As expected, the ship—wider than and nearly as long a Boeing 777 jetliner—tipped over and exploded in a fireball, putting an exclamation point on V3’s trip halfway around the world from the Texas Gulf Coast.—
Stephen Clark,
ArsTechnica,
23 May 2026
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No pattern enacted on these buttons will safely land a four-hundred-ton jetliner, flaring and bouncing and settling heavily onto its twenty-two wheels while the spoilers on the wings snap up and the jets scream in reverse and the passengers sigh in relief.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
19 May 2026
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“Airliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airliner. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.
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