jetport

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Recent Examples of jetport Adams and Garrett implored Judy to reconsider the jetport location. Bill Kearney, Sun Sentinel, 13 July 2025 Construction on a huge jetport had begun, but Stoneman Douglas and others were able to stop it after just one runway was built in the fragile wetlands. Christina Mayo, Miami Herald, 6 Mar. 2025 People who were at the jetport between 12:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. on Sunday might have been exposed, the agency said. CBS News, 22 Sep. 2020 Somewhere in the jetport controvert, Nixon took a liking to Reed and appointed him assistant secretary of the Interior. Alex Harris, miamiherald, 11 July 2018 In addition to recruiting new space hardware companies like rocket manufacturer Blue Origin, the city is trying to certify its jetport as a landing spot for Sierra Nevada's mini-space shuttle Dream Chaser. Lee Roop, AL.com, 6 July 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetport
Noun
  • First responders in Atlanta rushed to an airport runway Tuesday after an aircraft experienced a harrowing landing failure, with all eight of its landing tires bursting the moment the plane touched down, according to Fox 5 Atlanta.
    Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Hashmi’s team are duly assembled – with cuts showing the team physically fighting their enemies in and around the airport.
    Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 7 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The two were transported under heavy security via helicopter from the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to a Manhattan heliport and taken by motorcade to the courthouse hours before the proceedings.
    CBS News, CBS News, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The chopper flew across New York harbor and landed at a Manhattan heliport, where Maduro, limping, was loaded into an armored vehicle.
    Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 5 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • His plan centered on seizing the Hostomel airfield, a crucial staging post for an assault on the capital, but Putin’s forces got bogged down and eventually withdrew.
    Yuliya Talmazan, NBC news, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Since 2014, the Russian military has opened several military bases in the Arctic and worked on reconstructing airfields.
    Danica Kirka, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Scenes in Meredith Grey's (Ellen Pompeo) house and on the rooftop helipad of Grey Sloan Memorial are both filmed in the Emerald City, per Los Angeles Magazine.
    Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 6 Nov. 2025
  • But if the hotel has made the town enticing to a new kind of visitor—say, one who appreciates the convenience of its helipad—the property has none of the hermetic insularity of a traditional resort.
    David Amsden, Travel + Leisure, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • For nearly 30 years, there have been plans to build a veterans' clinic and final resting place on the property of the old Alameda air base.
    John Ramos, CBS News, 16 Dec. 2025
  • The two were among other servicemembers who made three trips between the air base and airfield over three days.
    Erika I. Ritchie, Oc Register, 27 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long-range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.
    Trudy Rubin, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025
  • Ukraine begged former President Joe Biden and German leaders to no avail to provide long range missiles that could hit distant Russian aerodromes and eliminate strategic bombers at the source.
    Trudy Rubin, Mercury News, 7 June 2025

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“Jetport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetport. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.

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