Thesaurus results for TRACTOR

tractor

noun

Definition of tractor

as in aircraft

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Recent Examples of tractor Waters, for example, went from sharecropping and driving a tractor on a plantation near Clarksdale to working in a paper mill and driving a truck in Chicago. — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 29 July 2026 Families can bounce between potato sack races and games of hot potato in the Tater Tot Kidz Zone before browsing the farmers market and vintage tractor show. — Kinsey Gidick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2026 They were convicted in the deaths of 53 migrants inside a sweltering tractor-trailer in Texas in 2022. — ABC News, 24 July 2026 The foreign minister told me that in the southern Mexican city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, about 140 miles from the nearest Mexico-Guatemala border crossing, a tractor-trailer had crashed while carrying more than 160 Guatemalan migrants. — Ken Salazar, Time, 20 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for tractor

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Kuwait said on Saturday that Iranian forces launched a wave of drones within its airspace, with its military destroying multiple aircraft after Iran targeted critical infrastructure in the country's north.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 3 Aug. 2026
Although Chinese authorities have not officially confirmed the aircraft or its development status, the latest visuals have renewed interest in Beijing’s progress toward a sixth-generation combat aircraft.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

The expenditure of those munitions goes along with other losses of materiel, including fighter jets, airborne early warning and reconnaissance planes, helicopters and drones.

— Sophie Tanno, CNN Money, 2 Aug. 2026
The search teams from across counties, the city and the state used helicopters, boats, sonar, drones and cadaver dogs to search a nine-mile stretch of the river.

— Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of helicopter

Noun

At least two ships were hit in the Strait of Hormuz in the past week, while several others reported near misses or warnings from entities claiming to represent Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, according to maritime data company Lloyd’s List Intelligence.

— ABC News, ABC News, 7 Aug. 2026
Six vessels moved into the Persian Gulf — five cargo ships and one tanker — while one cargo ship exited into the Gulf of Oman.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 7 Aug. 2026

Definition of ship

Noun

Several flights, including one passenger plane, were diverted to other airports after the sighting of the flying object near the airport shortly before midnight.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Aug. 2026
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating a small plane on a training flight that made an emergency landing on a Florida interstate Monday morning, narrowly missing highway signs and vehicles.

— Aaron Cooper, CNN Money, 4 Aug. 2026

Definition of plane

Noun

Emphasizing that any drone can be a threat in a restricted area, the FBI referred to an incident last year during the LA fires when a man flew his drone into a Super Scooper water dropping airship, grounding it for five days.

— Tom Wait, CBS News, 30 July 2026
Tropical Islands recreates a balmy paradise in an old airship hangar about an hour from Berlin.

— Gwen McClure, Travel + Leisure, 30 July 2026

Definition of airship

Noun

Now, Archer, working in close partnership with Anduril, has introduced the Halo, a commercial variant sharing the same core airframe and systems, sans the weaponry.

— David Szondy August 04, New Atlas, 4 Aug. 2026
These include possible improvements to the airframe, engine integration, and aerodynamic design, suggesting that engineers are continuing to evaluate and enhance the aircraft through successive flight tests.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of airframe

Noun

The tanker has been grounded off the Dhofar coast since June, according to two shipping and maritime news outlets, who reported that the crew reported an explosion on board at the time.

— ABC News, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2026
On February 28, conflict erupted in the Persian Gulf and tanker traffic through the Strait of Hormuz collapsed by more than 90 percent within days, according to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization.

— Ingmar Rentzhog, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of tanker

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