PASSENGER Synonyms: 35 Similar and Opposite Words

passenger

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Recent Examples of passenger But moments before the nosedive, passengers seated near the front of the plane heard sounds of a fight inside the cockpit, said passenger Daniel Schlichter, who was seated in the second row. — Sam Mednick, Arkansas Online, 3 Oct. 2026 After a passenger grabbed the copilot and pulled him out, and others grappled with the man to subdue him, Schlichter said that one of the traveling pilots practically hurtled the scrum to enter the cockpit and seize the controls. — ABC News, 3 Oct. 2026 Romero’s eldest son and another passenger were injured and remain in the hospital. — Fedor Zarkhin, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2026 The incidents, which involved passenger aircraft, all occurred at Sydney Airport during the past three months. — Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for passenger

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Carlos Antunes, Tap’s director for the Americas, told T+L that the airline introduced bidding with different types of travelers in mind.

— Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 12 Oct. 2026
Working with the Catholic charity Caritas, her initiative receives more than 29 pounds of medicine each week from humanitarian groups in Canada and the United States, travelers carrying donations and local residents.

— Andrea Rodríguez, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026

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Closer still to the falls, the mist is heavy enough to drench the sightseers stopping to gawk at the spectacle from viewing points, or on slippery pathways between the various lookouts.

— Charukesi Ramadurai, Condé Nast Traveler, 9 Oct. 2026
The famous ski run ends at the Montenvers Railway, which has carried skiers and sightseers from the end of the glacier back to the village of Chamonix since 1909.

— Elizabeth Shackelford, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of sightseer

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