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liner

noun

Definition of liner

as in plane

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Recent Examples of liner The shimmery shade was used as eye shadow complimenting Nash-Betts’ long black lashes, and also paired as a gloss with brown lip liner to finish off the glam designed by Naima Jamal. — Arushi Jacob, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026 Andrei Vasilevskiy stopped 18 of 23 shots, including one off the mask on MacKinnon's liner. — ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026 Sal Frelick hit a hard liner to left, but it was hauled in by Chandler Simpson on the run. — Kevin Dotson, CNN Money, 23 Oct. 2026 The process, called cured-in-place pipe lining, involves inserting a flexible liner into the old pipe, inflating it and hardening it in place. — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 22 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for liner

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Noun

To avoid potential damage during an unplanned landing, planes will sometimes dump fuel or fly longer to burn it off.

— Jessica Mekles, FOXNews.com, 26 Oct. 2026
That changed, because of advances in prediction models and better data collected by satellites and planes.

— Jessica Meszaros, NPR, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of plane

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Iran continued its campaign of striking ships trying to use the Strait of Hormuz, with four droned in the last 24 hours.

— Jim Edwards, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2026
While the Botanical Bliss ships compressed like all mattresses-in-a-box, setting it up required a bit more effort than expected.

— Nashia Baker, Architectural Digest, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Boom Supersonic, a US aerospace company best known for developing the Overture supersonic passenger airliner, has unveiled its first 14,000-pound turbine core, designed to support both high-speed aircraft and natural gas power generation.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 22 Oct. 2026
The new Delta One will take off on transoceanic journeys from the airliner’s hub at LAX this fall, with roll-out to the rest of its fleet slated in early 2027.

— Nicole Hoey, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of airliner

Noun

While tanker crossings through the strait are still well below pre-war levels, a restoration in Saudi Arabia’s pipeline exports has helped restore flows and keep a lid on oil prices.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 Oct. 2026
One tanker is now sailing toward Poland through the Red Sea, according to Bloomberg, and at least 20 more shipments have passed through the Strait of Hormuz to other destinations since early September.

— semafor.com, semafor.com, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of tanker

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Air Force investigators noted that no other aircraft were expected in the area but acknowledged that the radar contact may have disappeared because of the bomber's change in direction.

— Greg Wehner, FOXNews.com, 25 Oct. 2026
But trying to do both, operate as a car and an aircraft, faces many basic engineering problems, said Roger Connor, curator of the vertical flight collection at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

— Chris Isidore, CNN Money, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

The stratospheric platform has an auto-navigation system that allows the airship to fly on its own between point A and point B while accounting for factors like local wind conditions, Truong explained.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 19 Oct. 2026
The team continuously received the returning light while the airship drifted.

— New Atlas, New Atlas, 3 Oct. 2026

Definition of airship

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