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Recent Examples of seaplane
One option is to hop on a seaplane—many guests staying at luxury resorts will arrive this way.
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Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
In addition to private boats, several seaplane and ferry routes to the island throughout the summer.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Beyond the typical sightseeing bus, travelers can join Copenhagen tours by canal boat, bicycle or even seaplane for a fresh perspective.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
In April, the 32-year-old West Park resident opened Aero Jordan, a plane dealership with a showroom in North Perry Airport, which sold Aventura seaplanes.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 5 Oct. 2025
In addition to private boats, several seaplane and ferry routes to the island throughout the summer.
—Jenna Prestininzi, Freep.com, 22 Sep. 2025
Beyond the typical sightseeing bus, travelers can join Copenhagen tours by canal boat, bicycle or even seaplane for a fresh perspective.
—David Nikel, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025
In April, the 32-year-old West Park resident opened Aero Jordan, a plane dealership with a showroom in North Perry Airport, which sold Aventura seaplanes.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 13 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seaplane
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During the first visit, researchers found a dead snake-like amphibian, known as a caecilian, the study said.—
Aspen Pflughoeft,
Miami Herald,
29 Oct. 2025
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Cameroon Death Lake Lake Nyos in Cameroon, Central Africa; deadly carbon dioxide gas suddenly burst forth in 1986, creating a toxic cloud that killed nearly 1,800 people, 3,000 cattle, and countless domestic and wild animals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, and insects.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
22 Oct. 2025
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My journey to complete the nuclear triad took me aboard both a B-52 and a B-2 stealth bomber, down into a Minuteman intercontinental ballistic missile silo and deep beneath the waves on a ballistic missile submarine.—
Naveed Jamali,
MSNBC Newsweek,
5 Nov. 2025
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And as federal agents and local police wrongly focussed on Richard Jewell, a security guard who had spotted the suspicious package and should have been hailed as a hero, the real bomber disappeared.—
John Archibald,
New Yorker,
30 Oct. 2025
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The 1934 model year showcased an elegant new design, with coachbuilder Fleetwood crafting a body (no. 200) featuring streamlined fenders, a waterfall grille, and biplane bumpers.—
Rachel Cormack,
Robb Report,
28 Oct. 2025
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Their modest aircraft, a wooden biplane made of spruce and ash covered by cotton muslin, was open to the outside air.—
Katie Jackson,
Travel + Leisure,
23 Aug. 2025
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The Army’s record had been set by a five-man crew flying a trimotor monoplane with the financial backing of the War Department.—
Richard Selcer,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Mar. 2024
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Four years later, father and son took their first flight together in Warren, where a Ford trimotor was offering short trips to the public.—
Jamie Turner,
cleveland.com,
16 July 2019
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The recent drone escalation appears minor compared with the scale of the war that Putin began in 2022, when hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, tanks, and warplanes poured into Ukraine.—
Andrew Ryvkin,
The Atlantic,
14 Oct. 2025
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That morphed following its devastating 1980s war with Iraq into more of an effort to provide a level of deterrence as Arab nations around it purchased sophisticated American bombs, warplanes and tanks that Tehran couldn’t access due to sanctions.—
Jason Ma,
Fortune,
12 Oct. 2025
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Jim Irsay stood beside his private jet just days after the 2021 season ended and made sure the camera was rolling to capture his thoughts.—
James Boyd,
New York Times,
5 Nov. 2025
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This gave Gates, from the use of his private jet alone, the same carbon footprint as a small town in Burundi.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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Before becoming the 41st U.S. President, George H. W. Bush received training on the Avenger TBF/TBM torpedo bomber at NAS Ft. Lauderdale from June 16 to Aug. 16, 1943.—
Lauren Ferrer,
Sun Sentinel,
3 July 2024
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Several hundred aircraft would assemble, including dive bombers, torpedo bombers and fighter planes, such as the P38 Lightnings, F4F Wildcats, F6F Hellcats, F4U Corsairs and P-40 Warhawks.—
Linda McIntosh,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 Aug. 2023
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Their next round of glider flights was far more successful.—
James Somers,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
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During that time, the company produced glider parts for the war effort.—
Joel Williams,
CNN Money,
18 Oct. 2025
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“Seaplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaplane. Accessed 11 Nov. 2025.
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