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Recent Examples of midair
According to local media outlets, including German paper Die Welt and The Daily Mail, passengers saw flames shooting from one of the plane's engines midair.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
After a devastating midair collision above the Grand Canyon in 1956 that killed everyone aboard two airliners, the United States poured a quarter-billion dollars, an enormous sum for the time, into upgrading air traffic control.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Leo Uesaka, a seabird biologist at the University of Tokyo, noticed that his cameras were recording an awful lot of midair pooping.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
The exit came three months after … A passenger jet made a hard turn midair Friday to avoid a collision with a B-52 bomber, according to the pilot and the Air Force.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 21 July 2025
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA Today, 20 Aug. 2025
After a devastating midair collision above the Grand Canyon in 1956 that killed everyone aboard two airliners, the United States poured a quarter-billion dollars, an enormous sum for the time, into upgrading air traffic control.
—Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
Leo Uesaka, a seabird biologist at the University of Tokyo, noticed that his cameras were recording an awful lot of midair pooping.
—Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2025
The exit came three months after … A passenger jet made a hard turn midair Friday to avoid a collision with a B-52 bomber, according to the pilot and the Air Force.
—Ellen Mitchell, The Hill, 21 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for midair
Noun
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If the sky becomes menacing and thunder becomes audible, seek out a safe place to seek shelter.—
CA Weather Bot,
Sacbee.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Take a good look at Bootes now because as September rolls into October, Arcturus and Bootes will start out the evening lower and lower in the western sky.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
7 Sep. 2025
Noun
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Cleveland’s seven total doubles were a single-game season high.—
Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
9 Sep. 2025
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The previous high for a single window was the £398m spent by Chelsea in 2023, and though the latter’s spending over the course of a season then might still outstrip Liverpool’s (Chelsea went big that January too), there’s no denying the sums dispensed from Merseyside have been huge.—
James McNicholas,
New York Times,
8 Sep. 2025
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“Midair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midair. Accessed 11 Sep. 2025.
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