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turbojet

noun

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as in turboprop

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Recent Examples of turbojet Unlike most subsequent commercial aircraft, the plane had its engines, four de Havilland Ghost turbojets, molded elegantly into the wing itself rather than in pods attached below it. — Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2025 The sides fell from the packing crate, and the Roadrunner, a squat device that looked a little like a penguin, was propelled upward by two turbojets. — Dexter Filkins, New Yorker, 14 July 2025 Next will come Barracuda cruise missiles, Roadrunner autonomous twin turbojet vehicles and more. — Andrew King, Axios, 31 Jan. 2025 For a humanoid robot whose weight is larger than 15 kg, turbojets might be considered. — IEEE Spectrum, 19 Mar. 2018 See All Example Sentences for turbojet

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Noun

The single-engine turboprop plane was built in 2010, according to FAA records.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 July 2026
The low-wing, single-engine turboprop plane was not able to make it to full power, according to officials with the Bates County Emergency Management Agency.

— Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, 30 June 2026

Definition of turboprop

Noun

But for each Russian innovation — first-person-view vehicles, jet power, fiber-optic tethers — Ukraine has developed countermeasures.

— David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 July 2026
Across the first two weeks of the tournament alone, Infantino reportedly logged more than 20,000 miles of air travel, zigzagging the continent aboard a private jet.

— Tom Kludt, Vanity Fair, 17 July 2026

Definition of jet

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The Pentagon is not revealing its equipment losses, but Tehran is claiming large numbers of US Black Hawk helicopters destroyed and base infrastructure like aircraft hangars heavily damaged in its days of attacks.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
The aircraft is operated by the private charter division of Qatar Airways, a World Cup sponsor.

— ABC News, ABC News, 19 July 2026

Definition of aircraft

Noun

Both aircraft share a common airframe, hybrid-electric propulsion system and core technologies, while being configured for different mission requirements.

— Prabhat Ranjan Mishra, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026
Archer Aviation Both versions will share the same airframe, series-electric hybrid powertrain and core systems, with configurable payload depending on requirements of each mission.

— Ed Garsten, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of airframe

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Oil prices rose above $90 a barrel for the first time in more than a month, as the conflict between the United States and Iran escalated further, resulting in the deaths of three US service members and a strike on a tanker.

— Hanna Ziady, CNN Money, 20 July 2026
In comparison, about 300,000 barrels could be loaded onto a vessel that shuttles cargoes out to a bigger tanker offshore holding around 700,000 barrels.

— Bloomberg News, Boston Herald, 18 July 2026

Definition of tanker

Noun

The aircraft was described by the FAA as a McDonnell Douglas MD-11, a trijet wide-body airliner manufactured by McDonnell Douglas and later Boeing.

— Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
Each day at noon, French aircraft manufacturer Dassault Falcon flew a solo lap around the circuit in its flagship Falcon 7X trijet.

— Chris Clarke, Popular Mechanics, 7 Oct. 2015

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