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Recent Examples of jetport
The airstrip was intended in the 1960s for a massive jetport that, with its access corridors east and west, would have trashed Florida’s greatest natural resource, the Everglades.
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Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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.
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Christina Mayo,
Miami Herald,
6 Mar. 2025
Somewhere in the jetport controvert, Nixon took a liking to Reed and appointed him assistant secretary of the Interior.
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Alex Harris,
miamiherald,
11 July 2018
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
12 May 2026
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for jetport
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In airports, outside hotels and inside stadiums, Haitians wore their national colors and proudly waved their flags.
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Video showed people running and several areas inside the airport covered in rubble and dust, with damaged ceilings.
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The two-acre facility, owned by the city and operated by Downtown Skyport, is the busiest commercial heliport in the world, hosting up to 200 flights a day.
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An example of an inherently objectionable use might be a heliport in a heavily residential municipality.
Noun
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For amphibious groups such as the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, that means greater situational awareness while operating far from shore and without dependence on nearby airfields.
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In honor of Father’s Day, the king also shared a photo taken 55 years ago, an August 1971 image from the airfield of Cranwell Air Base in Lincolnshire.
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The marina with a helipad represents only one piece of Griffin’s rapidly expanding South Florida footprint.
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Other highlights include a wellness area, a winter garden, a helipad that doubles as a sport deck, and a sundeck with another pool.
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The city has a sprawling air base and is home to an infantry division.
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At about the same time, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps had destroyed a vital and expensive E-3 AWACS aircraft, one of sixteen left in service, while it was parked at an air base deep inside Saudi Arabia.
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Fifty-seven-year-old Keiron Beau James Hedges was charged with one count of threatening to destroy, damage, or endanger the safety of a Commonwealth aerodrome.
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While a lot of the Garmin D2 Mach 2 Pro’s features are shared with Garmin’s other top watches, the Mach line also provides flight-first features too, including an airport database and aerodrome reports.
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“Jetport.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/jetport. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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