as in plane
a vehicle for traveling through the air that has fixed wings for lift
my uncle learned how to fly an airplane while serving in the air force
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Recent Examples of airplane
Will Qatar’s airplane gift protect it from another blockade?
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
This rationale enabled Marines to pursue Sandinistas with impunity, leading to allegations of civilian targeting, village razing, and indiscriminate airplane bombing.
—Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Dad told Leadon that a guitar in that case could fall onto an airplane tarmac without a scratch.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The main portion of Captain Ron’s class took place on a stationary Southwest airplane.
—Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 11 Aug. 2025
This rationale enabled Marines to pursue Sandinistas with impunity, leading to allegations of civilian targeting, village razing, and indiscriminate airplane bombing.
—Time, 8 Aug. 2025
Dad told Leadon that a guitar in that case could fall onto an airplane tarmac without a scratch.
—Nancy Walecki, The Atlantic, 7 Aug. 2025
The main portion of Captain Ron’s class took place on a stationary Southwest airplane.
—Elaine Godfrey, The Atlantic, 6 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airplane
Noun
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Attendants are largely paid only when their plane is moving.—
Allison Lampert,
USA Today,
17 Aug. 2025
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Attendants are now largely paid only when their plane is moving.—
CNN Money,
CNN Money,
17 Aug. 2025
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Birkin famously sketched her ideal bag on an aeroplane sickness bag and the rest is history.—
Kian Bakhtiari,
Forbes.com,
23 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
Noun
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Hearing of the accident between the U.S. Army Black Hawk and the commercial airliner last January broke my heart.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
2 Aug. 2025
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No, this year the smoke was blown away by a British budget airliner.—
David Mack,
Rolling Stone,
22 July 2025
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“Airplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airplane. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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