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Recent Examples of airstrip
Meanwhile, the Chinchero International Airport is set to open late next year in the Sacred Valley, even closer to Machu Picchu than the current airstrip in Cusco.
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Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Of course, romanticism has never been Denis’ thing, and from the moment Leonie touches down at a tiny airstrip, the reality of where she’s landed becomes apparent.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Mark Johanson, Outside, 25 Sep. 2025
There's also an underground vault, two observation platforms, telescopes and an airstrip.
—Jamie Carter, Space.com, 23 Sep. 2025
Of course, romanticism has never been Denis’ thing, and from the moment Leonie touches down at a tiny airstrip, the reality of where she’s landed becomes apparent.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 4 Sep. 2025
In 2003, 21-year-old Katharine Lampman was fatally crushed under a moving art car, while plane crashes at the temporary airstrip and a truck rollover caused additional injuries.
—Robert Alexander, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for airstrip
Noun
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On the stage, Starr not only embodied the beauty of performance, but learned the dynamism of craft—how your look creates a character, a subtle foreshadow to her NYFW days preparing models for the runway.—
Brianna J. Heath,
Essence,
27 Oct. 2025
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Bieber simply captioned her post, which featured Jenner, 29, strutting down the street that was converted into a runway for Vogue's fourth rendition of the annual fashion show for a cause.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
27 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Oyer said Mar-a-Lago will pay for the helipad, and the town will incur no expense.—
Jenna Sundel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Oct. 2025
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There’s a restaurant surrounded by an aquarium—a portion of beluga caviar costs seven hundred dollars—and a helipad upon which Roger Federer once played tennis against Andre Agassi.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
20 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Meanwhile, Joby Aviation is making an electric aircraft that takes off and lands vertically to provide ridesharing from a heliport in downtown Manhattan to John F. Kennedy International Airport in Queens.—
Sam Gillette,
PEOPLE,
21 Oct. 2025
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The city of Indianapolis has received approval to take ownership of the downtown heliport, a key step for a future redevelopment plan that could include a future soccer stadium.—
Alysa Guffey,
IndyStar,
17 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Schuster said the angle at which the landing area crosses the Fujian’s deck is only 6 degrees off center, compared with 9 degrees on the US carriers, limiting space between the landing strip and the forward two catapults.—
Brad Lendon,
CNN Money,
26 Oct. 2025
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He was then put in the back of a pickup truck and taken to a landing strip, where he was forced onto a private jet headed for the United States.—
Jesse Hyde,
Rolling Stone,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This dimension of the work was heightened by its site, a former helicopter landing field on an old NATO base, given over to the Autostrada Biennale in 2014 as part of a process of demilitarization in the aftermath of the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and Kosovo’s declaration of independence in 2008.—
Joanna Warsza,
Artforum,
1 Oct. 2025
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The teens were evaluated by medical personnel at a landing field before they were released, rescuers said.—
Brooke Baitinger,
Sacbee.com,
26 June 2025
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“Airstrip.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/airstrip. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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