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Recent Examples of seaplane
For the thrill-seekers, there were glacier treks, helicopter tours, ziplining, and seaplane flyovers.
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Ronny Maye, Essence, 24 June 2025
The idea was to build a seaplane using advanced composite materials that had enough range and payload capacity to carry out fast logistics missions as well as assisting in rescue and disaster relief efforts.
—New Atlas, 11 July 2025
Every show opened with a dramatic ocean view of the skyline from a seaplane approaching the Beach.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
Located in the Raa Atoll, accessible only by private seaplane, it was designed as the Maldives’ first fully dedicated wellbeing island.
—Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Ronny Maye, Essence, 24 June 2025
The idea was to build a seaplane using advanced composite materials that had enough range and payload capacity to carry out fast logistics missions as well as assisting in rescue and disaster relief efforts.
—New Atlas, 11 July 2025
Every show opened with a dramatic ocean view of the skyline from a seaplane approaching the Beach.
—Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 July 2025
Located in the Raa Atoll, accessible only by private seaplane, it was designed as the Maldives’ first fully dedicated wellbeing island.
—Nel-Olivia Waga, Forbes.com, 2 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seaplane
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According to the study, fewer than six Steve Backshall’s Andean toads have been discovered over the last 16 years, despite multiple surveys focused solely on documenting amphibians in the Cerro Candelaria region where it was discovered.—
Lauren Liebhaber
July 24,
Miami Herald,
24 July 2025
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Many fish, reptiles, amphibians, and birds may produce a compound that protects their cells against the sun’s damaging effects.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 July 2025
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On a more positive note, the U-2 also showed that the Soviets had been playing a fantastic game of bluff that made the world believe that a handful of bombers and temperamental missiles were a vast nuclear arsenal.—
David Szondy
August 10,
New Atlas,
10 Aug. 2025
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The last time Netanyahu seriously threatened to send bombers to Iran was during the Obama Administration.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
28 July 2025
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In recent times, the show’s numbers — to say nothing of its cultural relevance — have been on the same spiraling trajectory as that biplane Cruise dangled from in the latest Mission: Impossible movie.—
Benjamin Svetkey,
HollywoodReporter,
18 June 2025
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On Thursday, Paramount unveiled new behind-the-scenes footage of the stunt, which occurs in the film after Cruise's Ethan Hunt goes toe-to-toe with Gabriel (Esai Morales) in a high-flying biplane sequence where Ethan transfers from one airplane to another.—
Wesley Stenzel,
EW.com,
5 June 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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Informed by intelligence gathered by the Mossad’s agents on the ground, Israeli warplanes pounded nuclear facilities, destroyed around half of Iran’s 3,000 ballistic missiles and 80% of its launchers, and fired missiles at the bedrooms of Iranian nuclear scientists and military commanders.—
Yossi Melman,
ProPublica,
7 Aug. 2025
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Other files contained designs for sensors used to warn U.S. warplanes of incoming heat-seeking missiles and to jam their infrared tracking.—
Micah McCartney,
MSNBC Newsweek,
23 July 2025
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In addition to the port attack, Ukraine's Special Operations Forces also hit the Syzran oil refinery in Russia's Samara region—a facility within the Rosneft system that produces jet fuel and other materials critical to the Russian military.—
Jordan King,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 Aug. 2025
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Aviva, who was operating the jet ski at the time, remains hospitalized, reported WTVJ.—
Jillian Frankel,
People.com,
14 Aug. 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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In the corner of the Mosquito hangar is the body of a Horsa glider, an unpowered WWII transport aircraft that was towed into the air and used to deliver troops and weapons behind enemy lines.—
CNN.com Wire Service,
Mercury News,
5 Aug. 2025
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The centerpiece was a number of huge, winged gliders that would land astronauts on Mars by navigating what was then thought to be an atmosphere perhaps half the density of Earth's.—
Rod Pyle,
Space.com,
14 July 2025
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“Seaplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaplane. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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