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Recent Examples of seaplane
Ports include Friday Harbor, Port Townsend and Poulsbo, and guests can enjoy whale watching, seaplane rides, kayaking and more.
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
In a contraption of his own making, Glenn Curtiss took to the skies in 1911, boldly becoming the first American to fly a seaplane in a quick trip from Coronado’s North Island to San Diego Bay.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
One option is to hop on a seaplane—many guests staying at luxury resorts will arrive this way.
—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
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Nathan Diller, USA Today, 23 Oct. 2025
In a contraption of his own making, Glenn Curtiss took to the skies in 1911, boldly becoming the first American to fly a seaplane in a quick trip from Coronado’s North Island to San Diego Bay.
—Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Oct. 2025
One option is to hop on a seaplane—many guests staying at luxury resorts will arrive this way.
—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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for seaplane
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But for an amphibian, this is a highly unusual and evolutionarily creative solution.—
Scott Travers,
Forbes.com,
22 Jan. 2026
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According to the researchers, the Atlantic Forest supports about 270 mammalian species, 850 kinds of birds and about 570 reptiles and amphibians.—
Jackie Flynn Mogensen,
Scientific American,
15 Jan. 2026
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Shaheed Aitzaz Hassan Bangash, a fifteen-year-old Pakistani schoolboy, stopped a suicide bomber from entering his school, where the bomber would have killed two thousand students.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
27 Jan. 2026
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The addition of end-to-end bomber Kiefer Sherwood is likely to create even more space for Misa, allowing the 2025 first-round pick to go from a guy with deft skill to an obvious game-changer.—
Dieter Kurtenbach,
Mercury News,
24 Jan. 2026
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During that film's climactic biplane battle between Cruise's Ethan Hunt and Esai Morales' villainous Gabriel, Cruise dangles mid-air from a seatbelt as the plane flips upside down.—
Ryan Coleman,
Entertainment Weekly,
28 Jan. 2026
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Since the biplane had been the basis of standard airplane design until that point, the M-1 and following single-wing designs were referenced as monoplanes for a number of years.—
Eric DuVall,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Jan. 2026
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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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The hearing also prompted an admission from the FAA that the air traffic control tower failed to warn the regional jet pilots of helicopter traffic in the immediate area.—
Alexandra Skores,
CNN Money,
27 Jan. 2026
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The flights will all be operated with 50-seat jets and will start between April 30 and May 7.—
Ted Reed,
Forbes.com,
27 Jan. 2026
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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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Each monkey had kept a piece of the little glider.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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This retro glider adds color to a patio thanks to its bright red, turquoise, and navy shades.—
Shea Simmons,
Southern Living,
12 Jan. 2026
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“Seaplane.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/seaplane. Accessed 1 Feb. 2026.
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