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Recent Examples of airship
The titular Leviathan is a whale doubling as an airship, the crew of which serves as the catalyst for the main adventure.
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
Sceye, in the meantime, is working on increasing the endurance of its airship and hopes to commence commercial service in 2027.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
The Hindenburg disaster, when the airship burst into flames while landing in New Jersey after carrying passengers across the Atlantic, killed 36 people.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Only two of 83 people onboard survived, and the accident helped end the United States’ airship era.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
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Kambole Campbell, Vulture, 9 Dec. 2025
Sceye, in the meantime, is working on increasing the endurance of its airship and hopes to commence commercial service in 2027.
—Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 24 Nov. 2025
The Hindenburg disaster, when the airship burst into flames while landing in New Jersey after carrying passengers across the Atlantic, killed 36 people.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 22 Nov. 2025
Only two of 83 people onboard survived, and the accident helped end the United States’ airship era.
—A.k. Whitney, Oc Register, 9 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airship
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Witnesses saw the aircraft flying low, then take a steep right turn before crashing into the building about six miles south of the airport in Lantana, according to the report.—
Angie DiMichele,
Sun Sentinel,
3 Apr. 2026
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Alex Souponetsky, the general manager of Fly Legacy Aviation, told CBS News Philadelphia in a statement that a Piper Pilot 100i training aircraft's engine lost power over the Delaware River on Wednesday.—
Kerri Corrado,
CBS News,
2 Apr. 2026
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Other targets, according to a post on X, included command centers, posts of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, air defense systems, ballistic missile sites, navy ships and submarines as well as anti-ship missiles sites, drone manufacturing and other weapon production facilities.—
NPR Staff,
NPR,
2 Apr. 2026
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The ship is slated to feature six major research facilities, including a marine disaster lab, as well as installations to study marine meteorology and heavy ocean equipment.—
Joe Wilkins,
Futurism,
2 Apr. 2026
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Videos captured a small airplane making an emergency landing on a Pennsylvania interstate.—
Kayla Hayempour,
NBC news,
5 Apr. 2026
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But then the political risk to those remarks and his entire sort of strategy rhetorically skyrocketed after an airplane was shot down in Iran.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
5 Apr. 2026
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President Richard Nixon walked on the beach and flew over the slick in a helicopter.—
Jeffrey Marlow,
New Yorker,
5 Apr. 2026
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Rescue helicopters rarely fly unprotected while on a mission.—
Janet Loehrke,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2026
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But four months after Epstein’s trip to the kingdom, a British Airways plane carrying a shipment from Riyadh landed in Miami International Airport.—
Miami Herald,
Miami Herald,
8 Apr. 2026
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By Saturday, the Pentagon had surged more than 150 aircraft to join the effort to rescue the weapons system officer, Dude 44B, including 64 fighter jets, four bombers, 48 refuelers, 13 rescue planes and 26 intelligence and jamming aircraft, sources told CBS News.—
Lucia I Suarez Sang,
CBS News,
7 Apr. 2026
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Users can tweak structural parameter configuration files to suit different bamboo airframe designs without altering the core control algorithms, making advanced UAV technology more accessible.—
Bojan Stojkovski,
Interesting Engineering,
4 Apr. 2026
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The four-engine jets, based on the Boeing 707 commercial airframe carry a flight crew of four, plus 13 to 19 mission specialists, a number that can fluctuate depending on the specific assignment involved, according to the Air Force.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
30 Mar. 2026
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No distractions, no aeroplanes, no noise, no traffic.—
Emma Banks,
InStyle,
4 Feb. 2026
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The technology can fuel any form of transport, including yachts, ships, ferries, aeroplanes, trains, cars, buses, and trucks.—
Prabhat Ranjan Mishra,
Interesting Engineering,
8 Oct. 2025
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According to a news release, a joint narcotics investigation led to Shelby County Sheriff’s Office deputies conducting a traffic stop on a semi tractor-trailer March 30.—
Caroline Neal,
Louisville Courier Journal,
1 Apr. 2026
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One person was airlifted to a hospital with serious injuries after a pickup truck was wedged between two tractor-trailers during a crash on Interstate 84 in Middlebury on Tuesday that left two people injured.—
Justin Muszynski,
Hartford Courant,
1 Apr. 2026
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“Airship.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airship. Accessed 8 Apr. 2026.
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