midair

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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. 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 See All Example Sentences for midair
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Noun
  • 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
  • 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
  • On this Labor Day 2025, as union popularity nears historic highs, union membership is approaching historic lows after decades of corporate and conservative attacks.
    Richard McGahey, Forbes.com, 31 Aug. 2025
  • His 148 innings are closing in on a career high (161 ⅔) and his next win will tie a career high.
    Jeff Sanders, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Aug. 2025

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“Midair.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/midair. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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