FAIRINGS Synonyms: 55 Similar and Opposite Words

fairings

noun

plural of fairing, British

as in donations

something given to someone without expectation of a return business takes him to all corners of the globe, but he never fails to bring back fairings for the family back in London

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Recent Examples of fairings The vertical launch horizontal landing spaceplane will be mated to a launch vehicle and will not be encapsulated in the launch vehicle fairings. —

Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 18 May 2026 The material was also used in the fenders, fairings and winglets on the Suzuki GSX-R1000R for the the Suzuka 8 Hours endurance race over the last couple of years. —

Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 6 Feb. 2026 SpaceX, too, has implemented its own recovery and refurbishment plans for Falcon 9 fairings, but the two halves of the shell protecting the rocket's payload on its way to orbit are still designed to split apart and fall back to Earth independently of each other, and of Falcon 9's first stage. —

Josh Dinner, Space.com, 10 Dec. 2025 Boeing’s uncrewed spacecraft fits in normal rocket fairings, or nosecones, and has flown five times on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rockets, once on SpaceX Falcon 9 and once on Falcon Heavy. —

Richard Tribou, The Orlando Sentinel, 21 Aug. 2025 The prototype that Sarcos demonstrated had all of the functionality of the version that will ship in January, but latter models will include plastic fairings over the suit as well as quick-change end-effectors. —

IEEE Spectrum, 10 Dec. 2019

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Swift has previously made several charitable donations, including $100,000 in February 2024, to the family of a woman killed at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade, and $1 million in December 2023 toward natural disaster relief after storms in Tennessee.

— Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 6 June 2026
Last month, Superior Court Judge Gassia Apkarian found that the ads violated California’s false advertising law by disseminating public statements about the disposal of property — specifically vehicle donations — that were misleading by omission.

— Francie Ebert, NBC news, 6 June 2026