jetliner

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Recent Examples of jetliner Boeing's 787 aircraft is the only commercial jetliner that does not draw air through the aircraft's engine. Megan Cerullo, CBS News, 12 Dec. 2025 The roughly 3,000-square-foot residence offers floor-to-ceiling glass, a deck with jetliner views, a rich red home theater, and an open-concept living space set high above the Sunset Strip. Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 12 Dec. 2025 The company said its jetliner deliveries drove it back into cash-positive territory for the first time in nearly two years in October. Laya Neelakandan, CNBC, 2 Dec. 2025 Many of my co-workers had previously worked at the Boeing aircraft company and reeled off rollicking facts about how during the steep, screaming plunge before a jetliner crash the passengers’ internal organs will actually begin to liquify. Chuck Palahniuk, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2025 See All Example Sentences for jetliner
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Noun
  • An Air Canada jet carrying more than 70 passengers collided with a fire truck while landing at New York's LaGuardia Airport late Sunday, killing the pilot and copilot and injuring several others, officials said.
    Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Air traffic control audio captured the dramatic radio traffic before and after an Air Canada Express jet collided with a fire truck on a runway at New York's LaGuardia airport late on Sunday, March 22, an accident that killed two pilots and injured dozens of others.
    Kate Perez, USA Today, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • The Navy Hawkeye, a twin-engine turboprop, provides similar information while operating off US aircraft carriers.
    Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 2 Mar. 2026
  • In October 2008, Chris Bretherton lifted off from the coast of northern Chile in a C-130 turboprop plane.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • The Tuskegee Airmen were a group of more than 900 African-American military pilots and airmen who flew combat aircraft in World War II.
    Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Mar. 2026
  • The statement adds that the pilots saw the helicopter, received a traffic alert and leveled the aircraft.
    Sarah Ploss, CBS News, 26 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ukrainian officials report that it is powered by a JT80 turbojet from the Chinese company Telefly, offering greater thrust than the engine used in the Geran‑3.
    Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 13 Jan. 2026
  • When the aircraft goes supersonic, the engine functions like a turbojet, with combustion going active to produce high-velocity thrust.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The 287-foot freighter was intentionally sunk to create an artificial reef in 1985.
    David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 14 Mar. 2026
  • In this screenshot from one of the live cameras aboard the International Space Station (ISS), the new Northrop Grumman Cygnus XL freighter is being jettisoned away from the station.
    Brett Tingley, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Ongoing strikes and counterstrikes on Persian Gulf refineries, pipelines, gas fields and tanker terminals threaten to the prolong the global economic pain for months, even years.
    Paul Wiseman, Fortune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • With the Strait of Hormuz blocked to most traffic, Saudi Arabia is routing oil exports through its east-west pipeline to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, and tanker traffic there has surged.
    Tim Lister, CNN Money, 29 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Mikel Arteta is taking his supersonic.
    Phil Hay, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The cruise missiles and supersonics leap forward as the swarms line up behind.
    David Szondy, New Atlas, 7 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • Graves has been at the center of discussions about aviation safety and investigations into the deadly 2025 collision between an airliner and an Army helicopter over the Potomac River.
    ABC News, ABC News, 27 Mar. 2026
  • The issues included airport signage regulation, aviation permitting for the developer of a supersonic airliner and advancements in GPS technology.
    Megan O’Matz, ProPublica, 18 Mar. 2026

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“Jetliner.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetliner. Accessed 30 Mar. 2026.

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