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midair

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as in sky

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Recent Examples of midair In March, a KC-135 refueling aircraft crashed in western Iraq after a midair collision with another KC-135. — Steven Beynon, ABC News, 8 July 2026 There's something mesmerizing about lakes with water so clear that boats appear to float in midair and fish seem suspended in glass. — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 29 June 2026 The midair explosion released a pressure wave equivalent to 230–300 tons of TNT, and any surviving fragments likely fell into Cape Cod Bay. — Govert Schilling, Scientific American, 27 June 2026 Separately, a Massachusetts man was charged with unlawfully flying a drone near the finish line of the April 2024 Boston Marathon, which prompted law enforcement to seize it in midair. — Reuters, NBC news, 23 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for midair

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Here, Monet painted his monumental Nymphéas series—around 250 canvases—capturing shifting reflections of sky, willow, and blossom.

— Lewis Nunn, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
However, this potential sky show isn’t a result of a coronal mass ejection (CME), the intense solar eruptions responsible for some of the most widespread aurora events in recent years.

— Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 21 July 2026

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Salt Lake City may set an August record with a forecast of 106 on Saturday, on the heels of breaking its all-time record high earlier this month.

— Andrew Freedman, CNN Money, 30 July 2026
The dry air will allow for temperatures to bottom out in the mid-upper 50s this morning, with highs reaching the upper 70s to low 80s this afternoon—fairly seasonable for the end of July.

— Trey Fulbright, CBS News, 30 July 2026

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